"In order that all men might be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."

-Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) - Source: The Rambler, 1750-52

George W. Bush is alone. In half a century, I have not seen a president so isolated from his own party in Congress -- not Jimmy Carter, not even Richard Nixon as he faced impeachment.

-Robert Novak, A President All Alone

“Iraq belongs to the 25 million Iraqis who live there, it doesn’t belong to the United States.”

-Sen Chuck Hagel of Nebraska

"We have to have an attorney general who is candid and truthful. And if we find out he's not been candid and truthful, that's a very compelling reason for him not to stay on."

- Sen. Arlen Specter

"The trouble with most folks isn't so much their ignorance, as knowing so many things that ain't so."

-Josh Billings - [Henry Wheeler Shaw] (1818-1885) American humorist and lecturer

"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defence of custom. But tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason"

-Thomas Paine - Common Sense -[January 10, 1776]