"I believe in cooperating for the common good"

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Source : CNN profile, www.cnn.com. March 3, 1997.

Erskine Bowles

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“I retire to make way for an abler man. In my four years as attorney general I have aged about ten years, but when I have get back to the practice of law, I hope to show those lawyers that I still have some vitality left.”
“I believe that there is one only living and true God, existing in three persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. . . . that the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are a revelation from God. . . . that God did send His own Son to become man, die in the room and stead of sinners, and thus to lay a foundation for the offer of pardon and salvation to all mankind so as all may be saved who are willing to accept the Gospel offer.”
“A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well.”
“People who are poor, they suffer a lot. And people drink a lot and people take a lot of downers and there's a lot of unemployment.”
“Your best player has to set a tone of intolerance for anything that gets in the way of winning”
“My whole way of thinking is, your life is almost like a movie, and you are costuming each day as you go,”
“Some folks ask me what the transition was like from NASCAR reporter to political reporter. It's easy. In one, you try to explain to your readers the significance of grown-ups getting paid exorbitant amounts of money to go around in circles indefinitely, always turning left. In the other, you get to interview racecar drivers.”
“Shallow are the souls that have forgotten how to shudder”

Source : Leon Kass, James Q. Wilson (1998). “The Ethics of Human Cloning”, p.19, American Enterprise Institute

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