Bertrand Russell

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.

No one who is at all acquainted with the Indian in his home can deny that we are a polite people.

What I find is most people have a civics book understanding for how Congress works and how a bill moves.