"You know, back in the 1950s and '60s, when J. Edgar Hoover was making the FBI the respected organization it used to be, oftentimes they would find a fugitive and basically have his house surrounded, and then put out a press release saying he was on the top 10 most wanted list. And 10 minutes later, he'd be arrested."

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Source : "The Last Word" with Lawrence O'Donnell, www.nbcnews.com. June 23, 2011.

Howie Carr

#Organization Quotes #House Quotes #Top 10 Quotes

“Lots of people think that bisexual means cowardly lesbian.”
“Whoever reflects recognizes that there are empty and lonely spaces between oneâ€™s experiences.”
“The state incurs debts for politics, war, and other higher causes and 'progress'. . . . The assumption is that the future will honour this relationship in perpetuity. The state has learned from the merchants and industrialists how to exploit credit; it defies the nation ever to let it go into bankruptcy. Alongside all swindlers the state now stands there as swindler-in-chief.”

Source : Jacob Burckhardt (2012). “Judgements on History and Historians”, p.188, Routledge
“Age affects how people experience time.”
“Ivan Lendl's never going to be a great player on grass. The only time he comes to the net is to shake your hand.”
“Every generation rewrites the past. In easy times history is more or less of an ornamental art, but in times of danger we are driven to the written record by a pressing need to find answers to the riddles of today.... In times of change and danger when there is a quicksand of fear under men's reasoning, a sense of continuity with generations gone before can stretch like a lifeline across the scary present and get us past that idiot delusion of the exceptional Now that blocks good thinking.”

Source : John Dos Passos (1964). “Occasions and protests”
“I choose films for their artistic value. I don't need a mansion or a Jaguar. When I leave this Earth, I won't take any money with me. All I will leave behind will be my art.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I believe that people take risk, and there are rewards if they do well; they should lose if they donâ€™t.”

Source : "Harold Ford’s New York Times Interview Shoots His Senate Candidacy In The Foot" by Jason Linkins, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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