We stand today on the edge of a new frontier. But the new frontierof which I speak isnot a set of promises.It is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intend to ask of them. It appeals to their pride, not their pocketbooköit holds out the promise of more sacrifice instead of more security.

-Kennedy,John F(itzgerald)
  On accepting the Democratic Convention's presidential nomination,15  Jul.

I have nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.

-Kerouac,Jack (John)
  On The Road, pt.2, ch.3.

I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.

-Puzo, Mario
  The Godfather, bk.1, ch.1.

Wicked people means people who have no love: therefore they have no shame. They have the power to ask for love because they don't need it: they have the power to offer it because they have none to give. But we, who have love, and long to mingle it with the love of others: we cannot utter a word.You find that, don't you?

-Shaw, George Bernard
  Marchbanks to Proserpine. Candida, act 2.