Super Committee Quotes & Sayings

I'm not here today to tell you government doesn't have a role to play. It does, but it needs to be the right role. — Rob Portman

As Benjamin Franklin said, 'Those things that hurt, instruct.' It is for this reason that wise people learn not to dread but actually to welcome problems and actually to welcome the pain of problems. — M. Scott Peck

They need to learn poetry. They don't need to learn about poetry. They don't need to be told how to interpret poetry. They don't need to be told how to understand poetry. They need to learn it. — Peter Davison

The art of oratory was considered part of the equipment of a statesman. — Barbara W. Tuchman

The Miz can out brawl Randy Orton. Out wrestle him, out shine him, out smart him and out class him. — Alex Riley

What is in the well of the heart will come up through the bucket of the mouth. — J. Vernon McGee

Our friends were not poetical, and the sight suggested to them no metaphors of human destiny; they thought only of the wonderful efficiency of it all. — Upton Sinclair

I think that what people who've committed crimes need isn't punishment, but rather the knowledge of the pain of being forgiven. — Inio Asano

A money-lender
he serves you in the present tense; he lends you in the conditional mood; keeps you in the conjunctive; and ruins you in the future. — Joseph Addison