Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love.

I lived by the candlelight for two years because I couldn't afford power. It was nice and romantic at the time but if you can't afford power you're pretty broke. You endure it.

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard very liable to be broken.

One of the really positive things about minority government is that there is the necessity to broker policy positions. What happens is you get a hybrid of what a single party might do. And I don't think that is a bad thing.

The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics.

Beyond politics the West is suffering from what can be called a crisis of brokenness - broken institutions broken families and broken souls.

When times are tough constant conflict may be good politics but in the real world cooperation works better. After all nobody's right all the time and a broken clock is right twice a day.

It is not to be disguised that a war has broken out between the North and the South. - Political and commercial men are industriously striving to restore peace: but the peace which they would effect is superficial false and temporary.

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.