Constitutionally Mandated Quotes

#1. We need to cut these things that aren't constitutionally mandated, that are kind of on the periphery, the fluffery, like NPR and National Endowment for the Arts. Those are obvious.

Sarah Palin

#2. We coexisted in a state of mutual detachment.

Patrick McGrath

#3. Half fish," he said. "Fish that you were. I am sorry that I went too far out. I ruined us both. But we have killed many sharks, you and I, and ruined many others. How many did you ever kill, old fish? You do not have that spear on your head for nothing.

Ernest Hemingway,

#4. We pay for every little choice we make. You traded everyone else's life for yours. I traded my life for everyone else's.

Sister Souljah

#5. There is no legislative change that can be made to make up for an economy that's not growing and not expanding.

Martin O'Malley

#6. Bravery is not strength in the face of a far lesser foe. Bravery is the exact opposite of that.

Hank Green

#7. We can't test these absolute limits on humans. We can't blast them with sound. However, we can do that to animals because they don't have the same political base that we do.

John Baird

#8. What to me is anathema - a corpse-like, outmoded hangover - is for photography to be a bad excuse for another medium ... Is not photography good enough in itself, that it must be made to look like something else, supposedly superior?

Berenice Abbott

#9. My mother's incredibly giving, almost too giving at times. And, my dad is a real logical person. He's got logic for every situation. They've been married for 24 years, so there was that stability, also. I really learned to think on my own at a very young age.

Brian Austin Green

#10. America is the first culture in jeopardy of amusing itself to death.

John Piper

#11. How strange and god-like was a composer's power, who from the grave could lead through sequences of emotion, which he alone had felt at first, a girl like her who had never heard of his name, and never would have a clue to his personality.

Thomas Hardy

#12. I don't really tell a joke per se, I build up an attitude and it becomes a joke.

Don Rickles

#13. Living does not undo life. Death does not, either. Life and death are not either-or.

Eileen Wilks

#14. I think I got a lot of my 'funny' DNA from my mother, who had a glorious sense of the ridiculous.

Christopher Buckley

#15. Hope doesn't need to come tomorrow, it can come right now.

Marilyn Grey

#16. Eggshells become hard to break after walking on them for so long.

Mia Castile