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“President Ronald Reagan on his 1980 opponent: "I had a dream the other night. I dreamed that Jimmy Carter came to me and asked why I wanted his job. I told him I didn't want his job. I want to be President."”
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“The West is supporting, even financing the right-wing media, it is financing 'the opposition', encourages capital flight of billions of dollars, works closely with the local 'elites' to create 'deficits', 'uncertainty' and despair. It creates corruption scandals, and it even supports fake 'left' anti-government movements. And of course it is training and corrupting some key military cadres.”
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“I do Sierra Mist commercials not because they pay me a lot of money or because it only takes a couple of days. I do it because I have a respect for all sodas and I like to communicate that. Some people say soda, some people say pop, where I'm from in Indiana they called it breakfast.”
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“I hope I make people feel better. I hope I take people out of their situations a little bit and make them happier. That's really why I do what I do.”
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“I don't want to be the president of the United States. I do want to work with the governors across the country to make the states more pivotal, more powerful, as they should be.”
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“When I needed to think or was really upset, generally I climbed a tree.”
Source : "Tilting at Tree Bags" by Ian Frazier, www.motherjones.com. January 2001. 
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“One summer I was homeless in L.A., when I was about fifteen, and I used to go to the library to get books. I would have books in abandoned cars, in the seats, cubby holes on the L.A. River, just to have books wherever I could keep them, I just loved to have books. And that really helped me. I didn't realize it was going to be my destiny; I didn't know I was going to be a writer.”
Source : Source: bluemesareview.org
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“From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.”
Source : Charles Sumner (1876). “The Works of Charles Sumner”
