"We may not be able to offer long-term employment, but we should try to offer long-term employability."

“We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.”

“Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a much greater; for both these arts are not only true imitations of nature, but of the best nature.”

“I've never really understood attachment to a place for reasons of birth. That my mother happened to give birth to me in a certain place doesn't, to my mind, justify any thankfulness towards that place. It could have been anywhere.”

“I'm gonna sing, and I'm going to make me a lot of money,”

“The crisis will reveal whether we have been practicing or not.”

“High heels are pleasure with pain.”

“I only included things that everybody likes, like violence, flowers, children, women, friendship and death.”

“Im the ranking Republican on the foreign aid appropriations subcommittee, so I know Tunisia well.”