"The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting."

"I'm here to support the commissioner and tougher drug penalties."

"A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer."

All I know is for a number of years, if someone like me called police for a burglary, a mugging, or something happened to me, chances are that a photographer or reporter would turn up before a policeman.

It is not too much to say that when the word "blood" is pronounced, this is a sign that reason is about to depart.

A continuity isn't necessarily right, just because it's a continuity.' 'Yes, Ella, it is. It is. Believe me, it is,

"Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine."

"You should learn from your competitor, but never copy. Copy and you die."

I wouldn't mind seeing China if I could come back the same day.

For forms of Government let fools contest. Whate'er is best administered is best.

Intrepid then, o'er seas and lands he flew: Europe he saw, and Europe saw him too.

California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort.

“I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.”

“Without education, you’re not going anywhere in this world.”

Although I'm not from London originally: I moved down here when I was 16, so it's played a part in my life. It's where I've lived for all that time.

“Creating opportunities means looking where others are not.”

Nuclear apocalypse-who do you need? Actors are probably not top of the list. What can I do for you? I can pretend to be somebody who can grow you some nice crops.

Exxon, Coca-Cola, BHP Billiton and News Corporation have much more say in organising the global agenda than the planet's 5 billion mature-age voters without a ballot box.

There are better alternatives, ... Australia should be exporting its solar technology, not its uranium.

Globally the Greens have arisen like a spontaneous combustion, a reaction to the narrow-minded state-backed exploitation of resources and wealth for a few at the expense of the many.

With a small fraction of the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on the Iraq war, the US and Australia could ensure every starving, sunken-eyed child on the planet could be well fed, have clean water and sanitation and a local school to go to.

A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey.

“This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can excersize their Constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember it or overthrow it.” 

“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.”