There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poets bombast! – Jean De La Bruyere
I think that the millions and millions of young Americans, young Americans, who have health care today, who wouldnt have had it if the president hadnt acted are better off. – David Axelrod
