In politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn.

Now is the time for us to strike. We must strengthen our foothold in Asia, to ensure no nation overtakes us.

It was wrong to allow Stalin to shape the European landscape of the 20th century. It would be even more wrong to let him shape the landscape of the 21st century.

Global capital markets pose the same kinds of problems that jet planes do. They are faster, more comfortable, and they get you where you are going better. But the crashes are much more spectacular.

The dramatic modernization of the Asian economies ranks alongside the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution as one of the most important developments in economic history.

The United States basically accepted protection abroad as the price of post-war recovery. Now, that these countries have caught up to our level of prosperity, it is time for them to catch up to our level of openness.

Blaming speculators as a response to financial crisis goes back at least to the Greeks. It's almost always the wrong response.

In politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn.

It used to be said that when the U.S. sneezed, the world caught a cold. The opposite is equally true today.

It says something about this new global economy that USA Today now reports every morning on the day's events in Asian markets.

You can't have a situation in which companies proceed on a permanent basis relying only on cash from the government.

We are inheriting the worst financial system since the Depression. We're inheriting a situation - when people go back and study major banking crises a quarter century from now, the one that America developed in 2007 and 2008 is going to be one of those crises.

Start with the idea that you can't repeal the laws of economics. Even if they are inconvenient.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

I think we will have a boy baby and he will be born on the 20th of August. Everyone else has a girl baby and at times I don't believe I should mind having a little Phyllis Dawn but Dearest wants a boy and I do.

Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy.

And so we remained till the red of the dawn began to fall through the snow gloom. I was desolate and afraid, and full of woe and terror. But when that beautiful sun began to climb the horizon life was to me again.

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.

I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think there's some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything.

Rush Limbaugh is good for the party. Drive it all the way down, take it down as low as it can go, make complete fools of themselves, because it's always darkest before the dawn, and then maybe a moderate can come in and rescue them.

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms.

Human rights are not a privilege granted by the few, they are a liberty entitled to all, and human rights, by definition, include the rights of all humans, those in the dawn of life, the dusk of life, or the shadows of life.

If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy - and without consciousness.

For our part, we shall continue to work for the new dawn when all the Children of Abraham and their descendants are living together in the birthplace of their three great monotheistic religions, a life free from fear, a life free from want - a life in peace.

And that will increasingly dawn on people. The demand for controlling the commanding heights will grow.

Each time dawn appears, the mystery is there in its entirety.

Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.

So it's conceivable I'll do something insane, or more insane than Dawn of the Dead. If that's possible.

Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.

I feel, as never before, how justly, from the dawn of history to the present time, men have paid the homage of their gratitude and admiration to the memory of those who nobly sacrifice their lives, that their fellow-men may live in safety and in honor.

Even though it was six o'clock, there was no sense of approaching dawn.

It is not time for mirth and laughter, the cold, gray dawn of the morning after.

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

Oft when the white, still dawn lifted the skies and pushed the hills apart, I have felt it like a glory in my heart.

When they thought of me, they always remembered the vacuous Billie Dawn. It was as simple as that.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

It began to dawn on me that perhaps my country needed me more at home than overseas.

A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

The nearer the dawn the darker the night.

I rise to taste the dawn, and find that love alone will shine today.

How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.

On the plains of hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions who, at the dawn of decision, sat down to wait, and waiting died.

Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up.

I was so young, and making movies, going to the studio every morning at dawn was magic.

We must believe that it is the darkest before the dawn of a beautiful new world. We will see it when we believe it.

There are those who love to get dirty and fix things. They drink coffee at dawn, beer after work. And those who stay clean, just appreciate things. At breakfast they have milk and juice at night. There are those who do both, they drink tea.