"I think Roosevelt proves himself to be the ultimate political force in this book. He really wasn't for primaries until he realized it was the only way in which he could challenge a sitting president then it becomes his crusade, is to create the primaries and to call for the people to rule."

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Source : "The American Political Invention That 'Let The People Rule'". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. December 26, 2015.

Geoffrey Cowan

#Book Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“Certain days I think definitely because we went in there and we got Saddam and that was our mission. On other days, we lost so many lives and so many brothers and sisters...on that aspect, no.”
“It's better to be in love than watch it.”
“I don't see myself as the Hunk of the Month.”
“Money has power. And so withholding money has power too, especially when a bunch of people do it together.”
“Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's dictatorial ways have hurt Iran's image across the globe and could be a prelude to dictatorship.”

Source : "Ahmadinejad accused of tainting Iran's image in TV debate" by Shirzad Bozorgmehr, www.cnn.com. June 4, 2009.
“Business is the real test of the moral life.”

Source : "Doing Virtuous Business: The Remarkable Success of Spiritual Enterprise". Book by Ted Malloch, 2011.
“The several difficulties here discussed, namely our not finding in the successive formations infinitely numerous transitional links between the many species which now exist or have existed; the sudden manner in which whole groups of species appear in our European formations; the almost entire absence, as at present known, of fossiliferous formations beneath the Silurian strata, are all undoubtedly of the gravest nature.”
“[Recent evidence regarding quantum mechanics is] sufficient to rule out all theological options but one - the Bible's.”

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