"The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom."

"A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn."

"Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion."

"In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want."

"That is why if Lebanon concludes a peace agreement with Israel and brings that accord to the Parliament our deputies will reject it Hezbollah refuses any conciliation with Israel in principle."

"The European Union is the world's most successful invention for advancing peace."

"No foreigner has a place asking another people, another country, to change their constitution."

"The criteria for serving one's country should be competence, courage and willingness to serve. When we deny people the chance to serve because of their sexual orientation, we deprive them of their rights of citizenship, and we deprive our armed forces the service of willing and capable Americans."