#pol

Boxing was not the sport that I thought is was due to all the politics. ↗

— Gerry Cooney

#due #i #politics #thought

There are a certain number of extreme behaviours led by fundamentalists who are using their religion for political ends and use extremist techniques. ↗

— Jean-Francois Cope

#ends #extreme #extremist #fundamentalists #led

According to the Gallup Poll, 24 percent of American adults exercised regularly in 1961, and 50 percent after 1968. The peak was 59 percent in 1984, dropping off to 51 percent last September. ↗

— Kenneth H. Cooper

#after #american #dropping #exercised #gallup

Police arrested two kids yesterday, one was drinking battery acid, the other was eating fireworks. They charged one and let the other one off. ↗

— Tommy Cooper

#arrested #battery #charged #drinking #eating

We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

#bounded #certainty #earth #enclosed #poles

Polar bears did very well in the warmer times. They didn't die out at all; they didn't die out in the last 10,000 years, nor during the previous interglacial, nor the one before that. So, they're just used as a deceitful heartthrob; you know, to pluck your heartstrings because the polar bears might die out. ↗

— Piers Corbyn

#because #before #deceitful #did #die

The Act of God designation on all insurance policies; which means, roughly, that you cannot be insured for the accidents that are most likely to happen to you. ↗

— Alan Coren

#act #cannot #designation #god #happen

The enemy is not just terrorism. It is the threat posed specifically by Islamist terrorism, by Bin Ladin and others who draw on a long tradition of extreme intolerance within a minority strain of Islam that does not distinguish politics from religion, and distorts both. ↗

— John Cornyn

#both #distinguish #distorts #does #draw

Americans deserve an attorney general that will be honest with them, they deserve an attorney general who will uphold the basic standards of political independence and accountability. ↗

— John Cornyn

#attorney #attorney general #basic #deserve #general

Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#answer #been #business #centuries #english