Well you know I - again even in the context of BP I wonder about this government's priorities. The federal government's top priority right now should be the cleanup. And BP certainly has done so many things wrong. They need to be held to account.

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot therefore maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

I think there are certain folks in Missouri that don't trust government. And they haven't trusted government for a long time.

But whether the Constitution really be one thing or another this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case it is unfit to exist.

I'm not really conservative. I'm conservative on certain things. I believe in less government. I believe in fiscal responsibility and all those things that maybe Republicans used to believe in but don't any more.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

Certainly it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising there's obviously a lot of deception.

What does kissing really mean to me? To me if you feel when you kiss a girl that certain feeling of all those dolphins like swimming through your blood stream and you get those good tingles inside your stomach I don't think there's any better feeling.

When times are tough and people are frustrated and angry and hurting and uncertain the politics of constant conflict may be good but what is good politics does not necessarily work in the real world. What works in the real world is cooperation.

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good and we must hunger after them.

But this will not do God will certainly punish you for stealing and for being unfaithful.

Well I'll put it this way: you can certainly say belief in God makes people behave worse. That can be proved beyond a doubt.

Scientific views end in awe and mystery lost at the edge in uncertainty but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man's struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.

Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.

I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination - the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life.

God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.

There was a certain point in my life where I had to decide that I was going to take my future and Nicole's and not wallow in what happened to me because when you do that you just keep repeating what's been happening and at some point you have to make a choice.

Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.

If this is not done future ages will certainly look back upon us as a people so immersed in the pursuit of wealth as to be blind to higher considerations.

I'm not itching to sue Amazon or Wal-Mart... they sell a lot of books. But the future is very uncertain with books.

There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.

A perfect storm is in the making: financial uncertainty economic downturn government cuts rising unemployment and a future that looks less clear the more we try to fathom it.

The global economic outlook remains fragile and uncertain. Global economic imbalances persist and we must address them or risk future instability.

It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future none at all. It certainly is extraordinary but it is certainly true.