"Patience expands your options. If you insist on immediate gratification, your choices are severely limited."

“I've won at every level.”

“We can't really have a serious debate about reform on immigration if we don't have operational control of the border. ... With the executive order out there, with the urgency of the threat, I think it's very likely that we'll get something passed, later this year.”

Source : "Becerra expects immigration bill soon" by Seung Min Kim, www.politico.com. February 13, 2013.

“Isn't it curious how one has only to open a book of verse to realise immediately that it was written by a very fine poet, or else that it was written by someone who is not a poet at all. In the case of the former, the lines, the images, though they are inherent in each other, leap up and give one this shock of delight. In the case of the latter, they lie flat on the page, never having lived.”

“...we understand only the individual's capacity to make sacrifices for the community, for his fellow men.”

“As Latter-day Saints, we need not look like the world. We need not entertain like the world. Our personal habits should be different. Our recreation should be different. Our concern for family will be different. As we establish this distinctiveness firmly in our life's pattern, the blessings of heaven await to assist us.”

“A relationship is more of an assignment than a choice. We can walk away from the assignment, but we cannot walk away from the lessons it presents. We stay with a relationship until a lesson is learned, or we simply learn it another way.”

“These qualities - things like deep listening, collaboration, flexibility, tapping into our emotions - seem to me to be the kinds of qualities that are intrinsic to women. I think that's the thing I'm most excited about: continuing to promote women in the workplace.”

“You remind me of Hubert Humphrey. You talk too much”

Source : "Paul Wellstone was a true mensch and Christ-like soul - Columns" by Kris Berggren, "National Catholic Reporter", November 15, 2002.