"Freeing hostages is like putting up a stage set, which you do with the captors, agreeing on each piece as you slowly put it together; then you leave an exit through which both the captor and the captive can walk with sincerity and dignity."

“I wanted to talk to very young kids about self-image and about being different and how that can be your strength, especially from the immigrant perspective.”

“For eight years Republicans worked around the clock to delegitimize Bill Clinton. For the next eight years, Democrats tried to delegitimize Bush. Now Barack Obama is enduring the rage of his conservative opposition.”

“A university anywhere can aim no higher than to be as British as possible for the sake of the undergraduates, as German as possible for the sake of the public at large-and as confused as possible for the preservation of the whole uneasy balance.”

Source : Clark Kerr (2001). “The Uses of the University”, p.14, Harvard University Press

“If a lobbyist sets up shop, or a lawyer, in which they're receiving income through what is something like a tax loophole so that it's not counting as corporate income, that is what this is counting as a small business.”

Source : "Austan Goolsbee Talks Economy and Elections". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. September 12, 2010.

“First, it doesn't surprise me that traditional music has experienced a kind of exhaustion in the 20th century - not forgetting that many musicians started to look outside the traditional structures of tonality.”

“That's as good as money, sir. Those are I.O.U.s.”

“The Porto players were with me for two and a half years, they believed in me, in my methods, in the way we do it. The next day I go and a manager arrives who works completely differently.”

“I would find it very strange to be on the road without my family. It's really second nature to me.”

Source : "A family affair for Kasey Chambers". Interview with Marnie Hunter, www.cnn.com. June 23, 2003.