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“Desperate times call for desperate measures. That's a saying, or a bit of advice, or a catchprase, or a string of words used to confuse people less intelligent than you. In any case, it means: Life is tough, so you'd better fight hard-or something like that.”
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“You cannot go on 'explaining away' for ever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. You cannot go on 'seeing through' things for ever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it.”
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“If the educated and influential classes in a community either practice or connive at the systematic violation of laws that seem to them to cross their convenience, what can they expect when the lesson that convenience or a supposed class interest is a sufficient cause for lawlessness has been well learned by the ignorant classes?”
Source : Benjamin Harrison, United States. President (1889-1893 : Harrison) (1969). “Benjamin Harrison, 1833-1901: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”
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“Not thinking it's possible is a failure of imagination.”
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“To do such a thing would be to transcend magic. And I beheld, unclouded by doubt, a magnificent vision of all that invisibility might mean to a man—the mystery, the power, the freedom. Drawbacks I saw none. You have only to think! And I, a shabby, poverty-struck, hemmed-in demonstrator, teaching fools in a provincial college, might suddenly become—this.”
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“The worst day of my political life was when President George W. Bush signed McCain-Feingold into law in the early part of his first Administration.”
Source : "Politicians Show Their Gratitude Where It Count$" by Bill Moyers, Michael Winship, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 3, 2014. 
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“It's important to continue to change and evolve in the way that the comics change and evolve.”
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“Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience.”
