'Favoritism' is always a factor, and pressure always build for the appointment of friends of

influential supporters of the President, or for the nominees of powerful Member of Congress from the incoming President's party.
Richard V. Allen

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
Henry Ward Beecher

All quiet along the Potomac.
George B. McClellan

I get excited by landscape.
Adrienne Kennedy

The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.
Winston Churchill

Judging by my degradation in the last 24 hours, I'll be surprised if I make it to Tuesday.
Aron Ralston