Since 1994 lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have considered it politically risky to offer a plan to fix America's broken health care system. The American public though has paid the price for this silence as health care costs skyrocketed millions went uninsured and millions more grappled with financial insecurity and hardship.

True silence is the rest of the mind and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body nourishment and refreshment.

Everything has its wonders even darkness and silence and I learn whatever state I may be in therein to be content.

It is better wither to be silent or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word and do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

Great is truth but still greater from a practical point of view is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

The water in a vessel is sparkling the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear the great truth has great silence.

Silence is a source of great strength.

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better Silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time.