When I was a little kid all I wanted to do was to escape what I thought was the country and get to a city. Probably film and television had influenced me so much I really thought the key to happiness was living a very artificial life in a penthouse in New York with martini glasses.
A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.
There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No Sir there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
By and large mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.
On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
I have a great deal of company in the house especially in the morning when nobody calls.
Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful it does a great deal of harm.
The Government and the Parliament even the House of Lords will consent to a large increase of electors and men who have not considered the subject fully will imagine they have gained much by the concession.
My house was bugged. They couldn't find any information on me being a subversive because I happen to love America I just don't like some of the things the government is doing.
What the government has to do if it wants to govern for any length of time is it must appeal primarily to the third parties in the House of Commons to get them to support it.
Clinton's successor in the White House George W. Bush was committed to expanding government spending for faith-based initiatives.
The government can only be brought down because it alienates several parties in the House.
Whatever you may think of the proposed mosque and community center lost in the heat of the debate has been a basic question: Should government attempt to deny private citizens the right to build a house of worship on private property based on their particular religion?
The public is upset. If they haven't lost their job they know somebody that has. If they haven't lost their house they know somebody that has. What do you do? When something's wrong it's government's job to fix it it must be government that's responsible for causing it.
We tried to have diplomas without learning we tried to have jobs without work we tried to have houses without savings we tried to have government without responsibility.
I can't really criticize the Tea Party people because I came into the White House pretty much on the same basis that they have become popular. That is dissatisfaction with the way things are going in Washington and disillusionment and disencouragement about the government.
You could afford your house without the government if it weren't for the government.
Honesty integrity and accountability the values which should be the hallmark of this government have instead been thrown under the bus by an arrogant majority casualties in a misguided campaign to shield from accountability those who abuse this House.
What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers the House and the Senate but you have simply majoritarian absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended.
Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?
As a real person he wouldn't last a minute would he? But drama is about imperfection. And we've moved away from the aspirational hero. We got tired of it it was dull. If I was House's friend I would hate it. How he so resolutely refuses to be happy or take the kind-hearted road. But we don't always like morally good people do we?
A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.
He who builds a masjid in the way of Allah God will build a house for him in the paradise.