"In a democracy everybody has a right to be represented, including the jerks."

-- Chris Patten

#Freedom Quotes #Democracy Quotes #Jerk Quotes

“I could have gone to medical school, I said. Except for all the math and stuff.”
“I'm like a good cheese. I'm just getting mouldy enough to be interesting.”

Source : "Saint Paul". Interview with John Aldridge, The Guardian, April 10, 2005.
“Happiness comes the way the wind blows.”
“Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it.”
“Death is better than slavery.”

Source : Harriet Ann Jacobs, Lydia Maria Child (2011). “The Deeper Wrong: Or, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.96, Cambridge University Press
“Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting.”
“Mercury pollution from power plants is a national problem that requires a national response”
“People are never satisfied. If they have a little, they want more. If they have a lot, they want still more. Once they have more, they wish they could be happy with little, but are incapable of making the slightest effort in that direction.”

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