"The foolish think the Eagle weak, and easy to bring to heel. The Eagle's wings are silken, but its claws are made of steel."

“Montana's ranchers raise the best cattle in the world. If Taco Bell needs to beef up, they can give their customers the highest quality meat around by using Montana beef, and in the process, supporting agriculture jobs in Montana.”

Source : "Tester Pitches Montana Beef As Taco Bell Alternative" by Sam Stein, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 31, 2011.

“The nurses at the hospital tried to soothe me, and they even tried unsuccessfully at one point to return me to Americans.”

Source : Opening Statement Before House Oversight & Govt. Reform Committee, delivered 24 April 2007

“I feel that we should stop wasting our time trying to please the supernatural and concentrate on improving the welfare of human beings. I think that, uh, we should use our energy and our initiative to solve our problems, and stop relying on prayer and wishful thinking. If we have faith in ourselves, we won't have to have faith in gods.”

“It's an addiction. I love clothes. I like to go down Melrose and look in all the windows and I go to different flea markets. I have lots of costumes. You never know when you're going to have to dress up like a milkmaid from the 1600s.”

“Keeping the commandments of God is not a difficult burden when we do it out of love of him who has so graciously blessed us.”

“Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves.”

“Prayer is not getting things from God. That is a most initial stage; prayer is getting into perfect communion with God: I tell Him what I know He knows in order that I may get to know it as He does.”

“Leadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which is contrary to tradition.”

Source : Cyril Falls (1943). “Ordeal by Battle”