Unfortunately, proof of a Jefferson-Hemings liaison was as fanciful as Professor Ellis' war service.

In the corporeal world, international law is whatever the United States and Great Britain say it is.

I defy any of my coreligionists to tell me they do not laugh at the idea of Dawkins burning in hell.

Hillary Clinton follows a cardinal rule in politics - don't commit to a decision before you have to.

The country feels like it's entitled to abuse this state and forget about us, and we are sick of it.

I've worked on enough campaigns to know that the most aggrieved candidate rarely emerges victorious.

Well, now we have exactly the same situation as at the beginning of the race, only exactly opposite.

To be a feminist, you could cut your hair really short. You have to be really angry about something.

The question isn't whether we 'need' guns. It's wether the government should have a monopoly on force

It's always good, when it comes to immigration, to always be paranoid. You can never be too paranoid.

President Obama has regularly granted special access to reporters who give him preferential coverage.

My disposition as a human being is kind of a go-along-to-get-along person. I tend to trust authority.

My mother was a teacher, my father was a community organizer. I come from a working class background.

Memo to young journalists: Democratic victories are always ascribed to hope; Republican ones to rage.

Our emotions tell us what to value. They're like a little GPS system: Go that way. Don't go that way.

...and he crosses the line with the ball almost mesmerically tied to his foot with a piece of string.

I have always loved the college atmosphere - sometimes too much, which is why I spent so long at LSU.

I'm convinced in 100 years Obama will have an important place in the civic pantheon of American life.

Trump is what Obama critics think Obama is: Someone who's focused on symbolism rather than substance.

The headline here is not that a woman exposed a breast. It is, rather, that a breast exposed a woman.

We now have exactly the same situation as we had at the start of the race, only exactly the opposite.

I'm not vouching for Putin's character, he seems like a shady guy. Hard to see why he's a threat was.

I'm a Christian first, and a mean-spirited, bigoted conservative second, and don't you ever forget it.

The Democrats have no actual policy proposals of their own unless constant carping counts as a policy.

Liberals decided it's much better not to play outraged with me anymore. I sell lots of books that way.

There ought to be an onus on the people that want a law, rather than people that don`t need a new law.

He's showed him the left leg, then the right. Where's the ball, the defender asks? It's up his sleeve.

The effectiveness of a group of people is not determined by their IQ but by how well they communicate.

If you're a soldier or marine in an Arab country, Islam is the solution. And you need to show respect.

I'm a little uncomfortable with the idea of judges overruling presidents on national security matters.

Unfortunately, this is a free society, and we're gonna have people with trucks, and people with bombs.

I was 47 when I got pregnant. I'd been trying for a couple of years and thought it would never happen.

Stay in your seat come times of trouble. Its only people who jump off the roller coaster who get hurt.

Billy Tauzin is one of the most interesting people in Washington. He is smart, funny, and interesting.

The best thing about television news is, it's immediate. Everything at a news network happens quickly.

Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it.

Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.

Where there's smoke around a conservative, there are journalists furiously rubbing two sticks together.

Why couldn't Obama have picked somebody respectable as his running mate, you know, like John Kerry did?

Ben Carson's not really a factor anymore. I hate to say that of anybody, but he isn't a factor anymore.

B.B. King will be remembered for his impressive skills on the guitar, that King defined the blue genre.

Young Michael Brown is still somewhat of a wild-child, with the ill behaviour, with the ill behaviour!!

We are a democratic, egalitarian people who spend our days desperately trying to climb over each other.

The people who really have character make deep, unshakable connections to something outside themselves.

When the facts change, you change your mind. I know that is a hard concept for people to get sometimes.

Nearly all the Brazilian supporters are wearing yellow shirts - it's a fabulous kaleidoscope of colour.

Practically every day, there is a story in the newspapers about a new breakthrough drug on Parkinson's.

I'm a frustrated driver. I would love to be out on the track instead of them. I look at them with envy.

When there's just so many games out there to play, Nintendo games just went to the bottom of that list.

It's almost impossible to make the case that Bush is a conservative. That may be good; that may be bad.

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