Quotes from authors born in 1956
My computer beat me at checkers, but I sure beat it at kickboxing.
Emo Philips
The United States' administrations ... must recognize that Iran is a big power. Having said that, we consider ourselves to be a human force and a cultural power and hence a friend of other nations. We have never sought to dominate others or to violate the rights of any other country.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
The country has become much more conservative, partly because it's been taken over by the religious right.
Bill Maher
I got some new underwear the other day. Well, new to me.
Emo Philips
Ali's belief in himself was something I picked up on, and it's become my own philosophy.
Sugar Ray Leonard
Diane Abbott 
Bill Goldberg 
George Antheil 
Billy Barty 
Bao Dai 
Michael Medved 
Mitchell Baker 
Gro Harlem Brundtland