George Soros

Now that I have called you on your false accusation, you are using additional smear tactics. 

A full and fair discussion is essential to democracy. 

Regulating and taxing marijuana would simultaneously save taxpayers billions of dollars in enforcement and incarceration costs, while providing many billions of dollars in revenue annually. 

The criminalization of marijuana did not prevent marijuana from becoming the most widely used illegal substance in the United States and many other countries. But it did result in extensive costs and negative consequences. 

We must recognize that as the dominant power in the world we have a special responsibility. In addition to protecting our national interests, we must take the leadership in protecting the common interests of humanity. 

Just as the process of repealing national alcohol prohibition began with individual states repealing their own prohibition laws, so individual states must now take the initiative with respect to repealing marijuana prohibition laws. 

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes. 

Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected. 

An open society is a society which allows its members the greatest possible degree of freedom in pursuing their interests compatible with the interests of others. 

I think there's a lot of merit in an international economy and global markets, but they're not sufficient because markets don't look after social needs. 

The worse a situation becomes the less it takes to turn it around, the bigger the upside. 

I'm not doing my philanthropic work, out of any kind of guilt, or any need to create good public relations. I'm doing it because I can afford to do it, and I believe in it. 

Queen Elizabeth I of England

I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman. 

A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing. 

I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too. 

Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested. 

A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past. 

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married. 

I shall lend credit to nothing against my people which parents would not believe against their own children. 

Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts. 

I pray to God that I shall not live one hour after I have thought of using deception. 

Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends to no wind.

Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths. 

I have the heart of a man, not a woman, and I am not afraid of anything. 

Those who appear the most sanctified are the worst. 

The past cannot be cured. 

I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that of my crown.

Joseph Priestley

Could we have entered into the mind of Sir Isaac Newton, and have traced all the steps by which he produced his great works, we might see nothing very extraordinary in the process. 

Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves. 

The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate. 

What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others. 

It is no use speaking in soft, gentle tones if everyone else is shouting. 

We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in color and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types. 

As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that thank Heaven nobody is reporting in this fashion on us. 

Will is nothing more than a particular case of the general doctrine of association of ideas, and therefore a perfectly mechanical thing. 

Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as fully equal to any other person whatever.

The History of Electricity is a field full of pleasing objects, according to all the genuine and universal principles of taste, deduced from a knowledge of human nature.

The mind of man can never be wholly barren. Through our whole lives we are subject to successive impressions; for, either new ideas are continually flowing in, or traces of the old ones are marked deeper.

As all finite things require a cause, infinites admit of none … we are constrained, in pursuing the train of causes and effects, to stop at last at something uncaused.

William James

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. 

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. 

Belief creates the actual fact. 

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. 

Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude. 

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter. 

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. 

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it. 

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune. 

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing. 

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. 

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. 

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes. 

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. 

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

Will Rogers

A fool and his money are soon elected. 

I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat. 

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves. 

Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans. 

Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock. 

About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation. 

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. 

Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even. 

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke. 

If you want to be successful, it's just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate? 

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. 

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few. 

Don't let yesterday use up too much of today. 

It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so. 

I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him "father." 

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. 

J. Paul Getty

Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil. 

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still? 

If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem. 

There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune. 

I buy when other people are selling. 

To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business. 

If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man. 

No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist. 

The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips. 

In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.

Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells. 

If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars. 

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed. 

Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying. 

The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights. 

Oil is like a wild animal. Whoever captures it has it. 

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

John Locke

A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else. 

All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions. 

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it. 

All wealth is the product of labor. 

An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards. 

Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.

Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues. 

Government has no other end, but the preservation of property. 

I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.  

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. 

I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment. 

It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach. 

It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean. 

It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth. 

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. 

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

Rudyard Kipling

A people always ends by resembling its shadow. 

A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke. 

A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty. 

All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They. 

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy. 

And that is called paying the Dane-geld; but we've proved it again and again, that if once you have paid him the Dane-geld you never get rid of the Dane. 

And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves "It's pretty, but is it Art?"

Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone. 

Everyone is more or less mad on one point. 

Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run. 

For the female of the species is more deadly than the male. 

For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one. 

Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble. 

I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages. 

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.

Bob Woodward

Even now there is no evidence that anyone involved in the Nixon operation was going to threaten us. 

I believe there's too little patience and context to many of the investigations I read or see on television. 

I believe Watergate shows that the system did work. Particularly the Judiciary and the Congress, and ultimately an independent prosecutor working in the Executive Branch. 

I deal with first-hand sources. And give the people, even John Sununu, the opportunity to respond to what I've been told by first-hand sources. 

I don't think it's useful for somebody to argue with reviews. 

I don't think there will ever be a permanent truce, but I believe the media needs to be more careful and be willing to count to 10 before rushing on the air or into print. 

I don't think voters give a hoot about the character of their political advisors, except to the extent that character reflects on the candidates. 

I gave my word that this source would not be identified unless he changed his mind. He has not. 

I give lectures for money, but all the money goes to charity. So, I make no money from it. 

I have found people don't want to be told. That they can figure it out.

People like to pigeonhole and say, Well, I'm a Washington insider, and you know, that's quite silly. What does that even mean? 

Some newspapers have a hands-off policy on favored politicians. But it's generally very small newspapers or local TV stations. 

Suppose Watergate had not been uncovered? I'd still be on the City Desk. 

The biggest rap on me is that I don't find a Watergate every couple of years. Well, Watergate was unique. It's not something Carl Bernstein, I, or the Washington Post caused

David Hume

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty. 

A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker. 

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence. 

Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other. 

And what is the greatest number? Number one. 

Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity. 

Avarice, the spur of industry. 

Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man. 

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Beauty is no quality in things themselves. It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them. 

Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived. 

Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain. 

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals. 

Custom is the great guide to human life. 

Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding.