Quotations

Quotes!!

**QUOTES ABOUT LIBERALS/CONSERVATIVES, ** **DEMOCRATS/REPUBLICANS, ETC. ** //Conservative, n., A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, // //as distinguished from a liberal, ////who wishes to replace them with others. // AMBROSE BIERCE

//A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, // //but only a fool trusts either of them. // P. J. O’ROURKE

//The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, // //and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change. // SETH MACFARLANE

//Liberals can understand everything // //but people who don’t understand them. // LENNY BRUCE

//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, // //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">however, has never learned to walk forward. // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">If God had been a liberal, we wouldn’t have had the // //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Ten Commandments -- we’d have the Ten Suggestions. // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">MALCOLM BRADBURY

//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">[Conservatives] define themselves ////<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">in terms of what they oppose. // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">GEORGE WILL

//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">A liberal is a conservative who’s been arrested. // //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">A conservative is a liberal who’s been mugged. // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">TOM WOLFE

//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy: // //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH

//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">A liberal is a person whose interests <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px;">aren't at stake at the moment. // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">WILLIS PLAYER

//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Conservatives feel they deserve everything they’ve stolen. // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">MORT SAHL

//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of celery. They're the kind of people who'd stop to help you change a flat, but would somehow manage to set your car on fire. I would be reluctant to entrust them with a Cuisinart, let alone the economy. The Republicans, on the other hand, would know how to fix your tire, but they wouldn't bother to stop because they'd want to be on time for Ugly Pants Night at the country club. // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">DAVE BARRY

//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">While it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, // //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">it __is__ true that most stupid people are conservative. // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">JOHN STUART MILL

//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">I fight poverty -- I work. // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">BUMPERSTICKER

//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Republicans for Voldemort. // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">BUMPERSTICKER

//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">You get fifteen democrats in a room, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px;">and you get twenty opinions. // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">SENATOR PATRICK LEAHY

//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">A liberal is a man too broadminded <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px;">to take his own side in a quarrel. // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">ROBERT FROST

//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Thinking about profound social change, conservatives always expect disaster, // //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">while revolutionaries confidently expect utopia. Both are wrong. // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">CAROLYN HEILBRUN

//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior // //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">to all other countries because you were born in it. // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%; text-align: left;">And finally, apologies for the language, but I love this statement..... //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">The enemy isn’t conservatism. // //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">The enemy isn’t liberalism. // //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">The enemy is bullshit. // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">LARS-ERIK NELSON

**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">SOME QUOTES ABOUT THE NEWS.... **             //Nine hostile newspapers are more// <span style="color: #111111; font: normal normal normal 24px/normal Times; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">//to be feared than a 1000 bayonets.//
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 160%; letter-spacing: 0px;">NAPOLEON **

<span style="color: #111111; font: normal normal normal 24px/normal Times; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;"> //Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.// **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 160%;">BEN HECHT **

<span style="color: #222222; font: normal normal normal 24px/normal Times; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">//In journalism, there has always been a tension// //between getting it first and getting it right.// <span style="color: #222222; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Times; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">**ELLEN GOODMAN**

<span style="color: #000000; font: normal normal normal 24px/normal Times; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;">//For most folks, no news is good news;// <span style="font: normal normal normal 24px/normal Times; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">//for the press, good news is not news.// <span style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Times; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">**GLORIA BORGER**

<span style="color: #111111; font: normal normal normal 24px/normal Times; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;"> //Trying to be a first-rate reporter on the average American newspaper// <span style="color: #111111; font: normal normal normal 24px/normal Times; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">//is like trying to play Bach's 'St. Matthew's Passion' on a ukulele.// <span style="color: #111111; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Times; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">**BAGDIKIAN**

<span style="color: #111111; font: normal normal normal 24px/normal Times; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">//If you don’t read the newspaper, you are uninformed;// //if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.// <span style="color: #111111; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Times; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">**MARK TWAIN**

<span style="color: #111111; font: normal normal normal 24px/normal Times; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">//... as interesting a crowd as will// //ever darken the gates of hell.// <span style="color: #111111; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Times; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">**JODY POWELL**, on reporters

<span style="color: #111111; font: normal normal normal 24px/normal Times; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">//A newspaper consists of just the same number of words,// //whether there be any news in it or not.// <span style="color: #111111; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Times; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">**HENRY FIELDING**

<span style="color: #111111; font: normal normal normal 24px/normal Times; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;"> //The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.// <span style="color: #111111; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Times; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">**DAVID BRINKLEY**

<span style="color: #111111; font: normal normal normal 24px/normal Times; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">//I believe in equality for everyone,// //except reporters and photographers.// <span style="color: #111111; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Times; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">**GANDHI**

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">﻿ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">**PAUL BIANCHI**,  <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">from his opening address at graduation,  <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">May, 2001 //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">.....I continue to be struck by the delicate and complicated ecological balance of a successful school. //

//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> Schools are emotional places; excessive amounts of hope and fear arrive each morning. Teaching can be very emotional because it is so personal; it is mostly art, not that much science. It's hard to time, measure, or agree upon art. You teach partly who you are and what you care about. Given all the passions and fears and expectations which swirl around school every day, we should not be surprised that so many schools are blown about with little constant direction or common agreement. //

//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">.....More and more we are filling up the backpacks that our children are carrying, loading th;em up with just one more item for the journey we predict lies ahead. Each generation of adults promotes this loading with earnest certainty, despite the fact that the journey hardly ever turns out as forecast. It didn't turn out that way for us; it likely won't for them. //

//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">.....we are misunderstanding our Puritan roots. Those hardy, early American settlers set the tone for diligence and hard work in our culture, but they were concerned about more than their own industry. They were mainly worried about saving their souls and building a model community upon a hill for all the world to emulate. //

//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;"> .....Before we stuff one more think in their backpacks or one more experience onto their resumes, we should agree that for everything we put in, we take out something else at the same time. We need not fear with this group of children that a little moderation on our part will result in lethargy and dissolution. They have already signed up for a ride on the achievement train. It doesn't have to be a bullet train. //

//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;"> .....We have always intended Paideia to be more than an escalator or a treadmill, more than a school that just prepared you for the next round of schooling. We want it to be a model of a way adults and children can learn together and relate to each other, a place where you develop expectations for yourself and the communities you want to live in. //