Quotes & Sayings About The Rats Of Tobruk

But having made my decision as Commander-in-Chief based on what I am convinced is our national security interests, I'm also mindful that I'm the President of the world's oldest constitutional democracy. I've long believed that our power is rooted not just in our military might, but in our example as a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. And that's why I've made a second decision: I will seek authorization for the use of force from the American people's representatives in Congress. — Barack Obama

Anaesthesia, that's one technique: if it hurts, invent a different pain. — Margaret Atwood

Papa was right, after all. A ship's crew was like a family, and together we had done what we never could have managed alone. — Heather Vogel Frederick

When I started the 'Broken Empire' trilogy, I thought it was a short story, and I didn't know the beginning, middle, or end of even that. — Mark Lawrence

Dialogue has to show not only something about the speaker that is its own revelation, but also maybe something about the speaker that he doesn't know but the other character does know. — Eudora Welty

The essence of a government health care system - for people who have never lived under it and don't know - is waiting, waiting, waiting. You wait for everything. You wait for years for operations that are routine in America. — Mark Steyn