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.

Winter does adversely affect [the roads] and our roads have been let go, so they're more and more porous. We're going to have to put more and more emphasis on permanent patch and maintenance, so I expect a great deal of roads breaking up in the spring.

Blushes are the rainbow of modesty.

The dews of the evening most carefully shun; Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun.

Optimism, unaccompanied by personal effort, is merely a state of mind and not fruitful.

All the problems of the world - child labor, corruption - are symptoms of a spiritual disease: lack of compassion.

The government is shutting down the coal industry, they say it's cheaper to draw nuclear power off the French grid and cheaper to buy coal from Colombia.