Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man’s choice, and is highly prized.

Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.

Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one’s bread to determine which side it is buttered on.

Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed.

Homosexuality is like the weather. It just is.

In one hotel, the maid who built the fire fainted in our room. Exhaustion was the cause. We talked with her later and learned that she worked 17 hours a day and makes 95 marks a month – about 50 cents.

Sportswriters have changed more than sportswriting.

I will not go into a story unprepared. I will do my homework, and that’s something I learned at an early age.

Those who believe in nothing are very, very jealous and angry at those who believe in something.

I suppose I shouldn’t go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.

Anonymous sources are a practice of American journalism in the 20th and 21st century, a relatively recent practice. The literary tradition of anonymity goes back to the Bible.

Don’t count on the Republicans to allow themselves to be split as severely on this issue as Democrats hope. They know the votes they need.

Fox News is hated because they’re elitists, and the worst winners television’s ever seen.

I’m not going to relate to an athlete as a peer.

Of mediumship there are many grades, one of the simplest forms being the capacity to receive an impression or automatic writing, under peaceful conditions, in an ordinary state; but the whole subject is too large to be treated here.

It’s very important to know the language.

Science is facts.

Christopher Guest movies are my top of the line favorites.

Fun is like life insurance; the older you get, the more it costs.

The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store.

McCarthy emerged in the person of Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin.

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.

Stem cell research can revolutionize medicine, more than anything since antibiotics.

So many of us had hoped that the civil system might be an alternative for some women, where the burdens were a little bit less, and cases might be easier to prove.

We believe. We believe in our destiny as a nation. We believe we have been called to do good, to spread the blessings of liberty and encourage the sense of trust upon which free societies depend.

The buffalo isn’t as dangerous as everyone makes him out to be. Statistics prove that in the United States more Americans are killed in automobile accidents than are killed by buffalo.

Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another’s resemblance to ourselves.

Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.

The victim mentality may be the last uncomplicated thing about life in America.

For me, a hearty “belly laugh” is one of the beautiful sounds in the world.

When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.

A White House dinner is the American family assembled, from labor leaders to billionaires, actors, architects, academicians and athletes.

The Paris peace talks kept a roof over my head and food on the table and clothes on my back because if something was said going in or coming out, I had the rent for the month.

Ideas rose in clouds; I felt them collide until pairs interlocked, so to speak, making a stable combination.

He appeared every night, like myself, at about nine o’clock, in the office of Mr. Tyler, to learn the news brought in the night Associated Press report. He knew me from the Bull Run campaign as a correspondent of the press.

One of the good things about television is that there’s such alternatives now to what’s often homogenized network entertainment.

One of the things that Africa needs, everybody seems to agree, is some measure of debt relief.

The standard entertainment industry reaction to Hollywood’s box office slump reveals the same shallow, materialistic mindset that helped create the problem in the first place.

So I plan to prepare thoroughly and have several outfits waiting in the wings in case of inclement weather.

I don’t find music being less important than, like, politics.

Hypotheses are what we lack the least.

Outsourcing and globalization of manufacturing allows companies to reduce costs, benefits consumers with lower cost goods and services, causes economic expansion that reduces unemployment, and increases productivity and job creation.

I worked with three people who were doing video music shows before MTV.

It’s what a fellow thinks he knows that hurts him.

And though various organizations in America and England collected money and sent food parcels to these refugees, nothing was ever received by the Spanish.

Journalists, who are skeptical to begin with, simply do not like to be lied to or made fools of.

One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

I mow my own lawn.

In other words, Social Security is every bit as insecure as the stock market.

Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is – it is her shadow.