"President Obama has shown he has the vision to support average consumers and taxpayers."

“If my wife made childhood obesity her mission and I signed a law making 1/8 cup of tomato paste a vegetable, I'd be sleeping on the sofa.”

“The longing for light is the longing for consciousness.”

“As a young boy, I read 'Cheaper by the Dozen' and immediately became neurotic about my use of time. It taxed me severely, but only for the next 50 years. But I think it also allowed me to discipline myself to sit in the chair and be a writer, where one of the most needed qualities is patience.”

“A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.”

“No use going to class unless you go to the library.”

“Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.”

Source : Naomi Shihab Nye (1995). “Words under the words: selected poems”, The Eighth Mountain Press

“My mother, she had a very good attitude toward money. I'm very grateful for the fact that we had to learn to save. I used to get like 50 pence a week, and I'd save it for like five months. And then I'd spend it on Christmas presents. I'd save up like eight pounds. It's nothing, but we did that.”

“I believe that never was a country better adapted to produce a great race of women than this Canada of ours, nor a race of women better adapted to make a great country.”