"The kids growing up in the apartheid era were so restricted and angry - if they spoke out against it, they were thrown in jail."

“Once we make our decision, all things will come to us. Auspicious signs are not a superstition, but a confirmation. They are a response.”

“I really don't understand how bipartisanship is ever going to work when one of the parties is insane. Imagine trying to negotiate an agreement on dinner plans with your date, and you suggest Italian and she states her preference would be a meal of tire rims and anthrax. If you can figure out a way to split the difference there and find a meal you will both enjoy, you can probably figure out how bipartisanship is going to work the next few years.”

Source : "You’ll Never Get This 21 Minutes Of Your Life Back" by John Cole, www.balloon-juice.com. February 5, 2009.

“Derivatives trading should be standardized and as much as possible moved to clearinghouses.”

“You can go back 150 years and literally find the same people saying the same thing in the same way. "If we have to pay you more, it will be bad for you." And that's because saying that is a much more polite way of saying, "I'm rich, you're poor, and I would prefer to keep it what way."”

Source : Source: gawker.com

“The bright bite in Mary Lee Kortes' voice [has] the high-mountain sunshine of Dolly Parton, with a sweet-iron undercoat of Chrissie Hynde.”

“I really think that creating clothes and fashion has to be a statement about how we live and where we live and what's happening in the world.”

Source : Interview with Sarah Jessica Parker, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2012.

“Baseball is green and safe. It has neither the street intimidation of basketball nor the controlled Armageddon of football.... Baseball is a green dream that happens on summer nights in safe places in unsafe cities.”

“I really liked Wynton when I first met him. He's still a nice young man, only confused.”