I was grateful for the opportunity to make a difference. The political violence really started in 1970-1971. The political difficulties start a little bit beyond that.
Rome had senators too, and that is why it declined.
Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.
The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.
Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal.
A liberal is a man who will give away everything he doesn't own.
Nothing annoys a woman more than to have company drop in unexpectedly and find the house looking as it usually does.
Very few people in the world would care to listen to the real defense of their own characters. The real defense, the defense which belongs to the Day of Judgment, would make such damaging admissions, would clear away so many artificial virtues, would tell such tragedies of weakness and failure, that a man would sooner be misunderstood and censured by the world than exposed to that awful and merciless eulogy.
I wasn't ready for this, but then I probably never would be, and this year, like so much else, wouldn't wait. I had no choice but to get out of my car, with everyone watching and begin in earnest, alone. So I did
You don't get Billie Joe Armstrong's autograph on your forehead without following your instincts.
Whom neither shape of danger can dismay, Nor thought of tender happiness betray.