Brian Gongol
Peril and Promise, John Chancellor
- A kinder, gentler America is an agreeable concept, but it is not a remedy for the ills that plague the United States today. What is urgently needed is a tougher, smarter America.
- page 55
- Seize this, Honkus!
- You always need committees, because that's where people share their knowledge and intentions. But when committees replace individuals, their productivity begins to decline.
- page 56
- Is there some action a government of India could take that would lead the Indian economy to grow like Indonesia's or Egypt's? If so, what exactly? If not, what is it about the "nature of India" that makes it so? The consequences for human welfare involved in questions like these are simply staggering: Once one starts to think about them, it is hard to think about anything else.
- Robert E. Lucas, Jr.
- The American press, with very few exceptions, is a kept press. Kept by the big corporations the way a whore is kept by a rich man.
- Theodore Dreiser
- I realized how much I had missed the low pay, the pressure, the insecurity, the mentally unstable co-workers and the free t-shirts. So, I decided to use radio itself as my own fallback.
- Alan Peterson, Radio World, April 26, 2000
- When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, "Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the Protestants in whom you don't believe?"
- Quentin Crisp
- Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made.
- attrib. to Otto Von Bismark
- When you go into court you're putting your fate into the hands of 12 people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty."
- attrib. to Norm Crosby
- Tired of being labeled as drunks by people of other ethnic groups, Irish people will get together, get drunk, and beat up other ethnic groups.
- Conan O'Brien, "In the Year 2000" sketch, Late Night with Conan O'Brien
- You worry too much about your job. Stop it. You're not paid enough to worry.
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