#den

How many McDonald's gift certificates would it take to sway a lot of Americans to pledge to never publicly criticize the U.S, President? ↗

— James Bovard

#criticize #gift #how #lot #many

It is important to recognize and politics positive thinking is often the slaves' virtue - something that people do to con themselves about the burden and change being placed upon them. ↗

— James Bovard

#being #burden #change #con #important

If you are Iraqi, you know who I am... and you know that I do not tire. I am the president of Iraq and I refuse to answer these questions because this court is illegitimate. ↗

— Saddam Hussein

#answer #because #court #i #i am

Candidates and their consultants keep making the same mistake. They assume that all independents are bundled neatly together ideologically between Republicans and Democrats. ↗

— John Sununu

#between #candidates #consultants #democrats #ideologically

Though no one wants war, Congress needed to give the President the authority he needs to protect America while encouraging the use of diplomacy and negotiations to try and arrive at a peaceful solution to this problem. ↗

— Allen Boyd

#arrive #authority #congress #diplomacy #encouraging

Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

#courage #end #happiness #independence #liberty

We know that attention acts as a lightning rod. Merely by concentrating on something one causes endless analogies to collect around it, even penetrate the boundaries of the subject itself: an experience that we call coincidence, serendipity – the terminology is extensive. My experience has been that in these circular travels what is really significant surrounds a central absence, an absence that, paradoxically, is the text being written or to be written. ↗

— Julio Cortázar

#coincidence #concentration #writing #experience

I have a tendency to be lucky and make the right choices based on limited information. ↗

— Paul D. Boyer

#choices #i #information #limited #lucky

A lot of film directors are quite scared of actors. They are a bit of a nightmare sometimes, but I like them. It looks like cunning, but you try to get extra things from them all the time, by stealth, by making them feel confident, so they trust you and you can push a bit. ↗

— Danny Boyle

#confident #cunning #directors #extra #feel

How can I teach my boys the value and beauty of language and thus communication when the President himself reads westerns exclusively and cannot put together a simple English sentence? (John Steinbeck, in a private letter written during the Eisenhower administration) ↗

— John Steinbeck

#of #president #remind #you #beauty