It is now the moment when by our common consent we pause to become conscious of our national life and to rejoice in it, to recall what our country has done for each of us, and to ask ourselves what we can do for our country in return.

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.

-- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous

I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president.

I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.

The following are donated by Stan the Man:

To rebel is justified.

-- Chairman Mao

We have had triumphs, we have made mistakes, we have had sex.

-- President George Bush, 1988

I hope I stand for anti-bigotry, anti-Semitism, anti-racism. That is what drives me.

-- President George Bush, 1988

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Theodore! If you knew how ridiculous you look up that tree, you'd come down at once!

(spoken to President Theodore Roosevelt by Senator Henry Cabot Lodge)

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-- Senator Henry Cabot Lodge

"The contagious people of Washington havestood firm against diversity during this long period of increment weather."

- M. Barry, Mayor of Washington, DC

"I promise you a police car on every sidewalk."

- M. Barry, Mayor of Washington, DC

"If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very very low crime rate."

- M. Barry, Mayor of Washington, DC

"First, it was not a strip bar, it was an erotic club. And second, what can I say? I'm a night owl."

- M. Barry, Mayor of Washington, DC

"Bitch set me up."

- M. Barry, Mayor of Washington, DC

"I am clearly more popular than Reagan. I am in my third term. Where's Reagan? Gone after two! Defeated by George Bush and Michael Dukakis no less."

- M. Barry, Mayor of Washington, DC

"The laws in this city are clearly racist. All laws are racist. The law of gravity is racist."

- M. Barry, Mayor of Washington, DC

"I am making this trip to Africa because Washington is an international city, just like Tokyo, Nigeria or Israel. As mayor, I am an international symbol. Can you deny that to Africa?"

- M. Barry, Mayor of Washington, DC

"People have criticized me because my security detail is larger than the president's. But you must ask yourself: are there more people who want to kill me than who want to kill the president? I can assure you there are."

- M. Barry, Mayor of Washington, DC

"The brave men who died in Vietnam, more than 100% of which were black, were the ultimate sacrifice."

- M. Barry, Mayor of Washington, DC

"I read a funny story about how the Republicans freed the slaves. The Republicans are the ones who created slavery by law in the 1600's. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves and he was not a Republican."

- M. Barry, Mayor of Washington, DC

"What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary?"

- M. Barry, Mayor of Washington, DC

"People blame me because these water mains break, but I ask you, if the water mains didn't break, would it be my responsibility to fix them then? WOULD IT!?!"

- M. Barry, Mayor of Washington, DC

"I am a great mayor; I am an upstanding Christian man; I am an intelligent man; I am a deeply educated man; I am a humble man."