"I started in the mailroom, literally, as an intern... in 1974. The legislator I was working for at the time said, 'I want you to get your law degree and come back here and get elected and be the first woman governor.' I kind of took that guy seriously - I thought that sounded like a pretty good idea."

-- Claire McCaskill

#Ideas Quotes #Law Quotes #Guy Quotes

“Does that mean we should give up? Probably. But there are two issues worth considering. The first is - is it really true that drugs destroy the integrity of the game?”
“The world would be entirely different if it were run by women. I think it is true that we are more seeking consensus and don't have such big egos and have a variety of different ways of trying to get along. But anybody who says that the world would be better has forgotten high school. It depends on who the women are.”
“We work day after day, not to finish things; but to make the future better ... because we will spend the rest of our lives there.”
“The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same - dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits - the repetition through the ages is comedy.”

Source : Dawn Powell (1998). “The Diaries of Dawn Powell: 1931-1965”, Zoland Books
“In the United States especially, politics and economics donâ€™t mix well. Politicians have all sorts of reasons to pass all sorts of laws that, as well-meaning as they may be, fail to account for the way real people respond to real-world incentives.”

Source : Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner (2010). “SuperFreakonomics, Illustrated edition: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance”, p.44, Harper Collins
“The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work.”
“There were thirst and hunger, and you were the fruit. There were grief and the ruins, and you were the miracle.”
“I think of fans like a barbershop. I want that debate.”

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