Aim Quote by Elinor Ostrom

The Bible, that powerful book, has many effects: it comforts, counsels, instructs, and brings us into the presence of God. But trying to erase…

— Frederica Mathewes-Green

If you've written a powerful book about a woman and your publisher then puts a 'feminine' image on the cover, it 'types' the book.

— Meg Wolitzer

Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is such a powerful book, and 'Love in the Time of Cholera' is so strangely, brilliantly…

— Anjelica Huston

Rick Bass is one of a dwindling handful of American fiction writers still celebrating the importance of place, the natural world, and the struggle…

— Howard Frank Mosher

The most powerful book in the world at the beginning of the twentieth century is the check-book.

— Alec-Tweedie

This Civil Rights Act is a challenge to all of us to go to work in our communities and our states, in our homes…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

I believe in an America ... where no public official either requests or accepts instructions on public policy from the Pope, the National Council…

— John F. Kennedy

I hope for an America where no president, no public official, no individual will ever be deemed a greater or lesser American because of…

— Edward Kennedy

Campaign finance and ethics reform only works if it curtails all special interest groups equally and does not carve out any exceptions to benefit…

— Thomas Kean, Jr

I always felt, and I still feel, that the media doesn't belong in a public official's private life. It's a very difficult balance, because…

— Rudy Giuliani

Public officials insult our intelligence and our goodwill when they paint rosy pictures about budgets, jobs, bipartisanship, and transparency, and alter their positions on…

— Anonymous

Debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust and wide-open and that...may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and…

— William J. Brennan