In the wiretapping, despite all the momentum for a more assertive Congress, you're seeing Congress backing down, because there are many Republicans and even Democrats who are afraid of being seen as preventing the president from protecting the nation.

We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.

Graphite also absorbs the shock of a hit. The first (graphite) clubs that came out were too flexible, but now you can get them to be just as firm as you want and need.

I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans.

Experience is something I always think I have until I get more of it.

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

If you overpower your enemy, then pardon him by way of thankfulness to Allah, for being able to subdue him.