The problem in this district isn't the taxpayers' association. It's voter apathy in general, and a lack of interest from parents in particular.

Shirking and sharking, in all their many varieties, have been sown broadcast by the ill-fated cause; and even those who have contemplated its history from the outermost circle of such evil, have been insensibly tempted into a loose way of letting bad things alone to take their own bad course, and a loose belief that if the world go wrong, it was, in some offhand manner, never meant to go right.

They wrote to me and said something about it, and I said that if it doesn't involve any work, I'll do it.
(On being named Minnesota's first Poet Laureate)

[Until the early 80s, Commons observers usually thought about MPs in terms of interest groups and ideologies. And many MPs identified themselves the same way:] When you were faced with an issue, ... you often put yourself on automatic pilot. You had the guideposts of ideology, and you had groups like the [leftwing] Tribune Group to align with.

It's a lovely book. I thumb through it and find it actually of interest. . . . I had no idea that all of these things he found had affected my songs.

I have always had an abiding interest in that type of female anatomy.