The Canadian government continues to say they will not help us if we go to war with Iraq. However the prime minister of Canada said he'd like to help but he's pretty sure that last time he checked Canada had no army.

I can't really criticize the Tea Party people because I came into the White House pretty much on the same basis that they have become popular. That is dissatisfaction with the way things are going in Washington and disillusionment and disencouragement about the government.

The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions and if the road to hell is paved with them then it's a pretty good detour.

I wasn't in school often enough to really belong to a 'clique ' but my friends all studied hard and got pretty good grades. They were good people with self-respect. I still like to be friends with people I admire something about I really believe that we become like the people we're surrounded by so I choose my friends carefully!

Ten percent of the big fish still remain. There are still some blue whales. There are still some krill in Antarctica. There are a few oysters in Chesapeake Bay. Half the coral reefs are still in pretty good shape a jeweled belt around the middle of the planet. There's still time but not a lot to turn things around.

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore not because they are pretty or good or well-bred or graceful or intelligent but because they are themselves.

Well well Henry James is pretty good though he is of the nineteenth century and that glaringly.

If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.

Life's pretty good and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate after all.

I had a stick of CareFree gum but it didn't work. I felt pretty good while I was blowing that bubble but as soon as the gum lost its flavor I was back to pondering my mortality.