"Even in Madison's day, the practice of gerrymandering for partisan advantage was familiar. In the late seventeen-eighties, there were claims that Patrick Henry had tried to gerrymander Madison himself out of the First Congress. The term was coined during Madison's Presidency, to mock Elbridge Gerry, the governor of Massachusetts, who in 1811 approved an election district that was said to look like a salamander."

-- Jeffrey Toobin

#Practice Quotes #Looks Quotes #Massachusetts Quotes

“While that amendment failed, human cloning continues to advance and the breakthrough in this unethical and morally questionable science is around the corner.”
“I am positive that flexibility is a feminine characteristic.”
“International Literacy Day is an occasion to celebrate the importance of literacy to individuals, communities and societies everywhere”
“You need to evade every influence that tends to keep you frozen in the past.”
“If I have a problem, stuff's going through my head, I feel like using, I usually go and talk to my dad... I decided to get sober a lot younger than he did. He first tried to get sober when he was like 32, I believe.”
“At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.”
“It's a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life.”
“Hudibras has defined nonsense, as Cowley does wit, by negatives. Nonsense, he says, is that which is neither true nor false. These two great properties of nonsense, which are always essential to it, give it such a peculiar advantage over all other writings, that it is incapable of being either answered or contradicted.”

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