"You go into a community and they will vote 80 percent to 20 percent in favor of a tougher Clean Air Act, but if you ask them to devote 20 minutes a year to having their car emissions inspected, they will vote 80 to 20 against it. We are a long way in this country from taking individual responsibility for the environmental problem."

-- William Ruckelshaus

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“The real secrets start leaking out when there are too many secrets because people can't remember what's a real secret. There's a very famous line by National Security Advisor McGeorge Bundy: "If you guard your toothbrushes and your diamonds with equal zeal, you'll lose fewer toothbrushes and more diamonds." And that's where we are right now.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“wherever the TV glows, there sits someone who isn't reading.”
“If you want to be entertained, go and see Hanson.”
“I think hope is not simply looking around and saying that everythingâ€™s great â€“ thatâ€™s just ridiculous. For hope to have substance, it has to acknowledge the pain. But hope is saying thatâ€™s not the final story. Itâ€™s not saying pain doesnâ€™t exist, but itâ€™s saying thereâ€™s not a period at the end of that sentence. Itâ€™s still being written.”
“What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures, to make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright.”

Source : The Shoe workers' Journal, Volume 16‎ (p. 4), 1915.
“Midwestern people have the most judgmental ***** ever. I'm sorry, but it's true.”

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“Is John Motson still wearing his shepherdskin coat?”
“My eyes open after my mind. All eyes always do.”

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