"Big sporting events and spectacles might give the national morale a shot in the arm, but they are too transient and taste-specific to stand as robust symbols of nationhood."

-- Julian Baggini

#Giving Quotes #Arms Quotes #Might Quotes

“I had this notion that I could convince people who were skeptical of national Democrats to vote for me because I could bring home the bacon, or because I could find some personal pitch to them.”

Source : "Central Casting" by Jeffrey Goldberg, www.newyorker.com. May 29, 2006.
“Once you begin to explain or excuse...”
“I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.”
“The problem we have had on the budget all along is a lack of adult supervision on the part of the White House. You can't blame members of Congress for looking out for their parochial interests. It is the president's responsibility to look out for the national interest.”
“I am convinced that those who get themselves involved in the machinery of power politics, even for the purpose of destroying it, are bound to fail in their purpose. To destroy it we have to stay out of it. If we want to cut down a tree, it is of no use to climb into its branches. The desire to keep contact with something, even to destroy it, is a subtle and insidious illusion.”
“What do we do with a president who can basically change what Congress passed by attaching a letter saying I don't agree with this part or that part?”
“Expenditure--like ugliness and errors--becomes a totally new thing when we attach our own personality to it, and measure it by that wide difference which is manifest (in our own sensations) between ourselves and others.”
“I find if you're targeting Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X right from the start, your code will probably work anywhere else that you might try it later... Writing code that is cross-platform from the start requires more discipline, but I find it is worth the effort.”

Source : Interview with Luboš Doležel, www.abclinuxu.cz. March 08, 2011.

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