Quotes
Authors
Joseph Sobran

"How odd that Americans, and not just their presidents, have come to think of their Constitution as something separable from the government it's supposed to constitute. In theory, it should be as binding on rulers as the laws of physics are on engineers who design bridges; in practice, its axioms have become mere options. Of course engineers don't have to take oaths to respect the law of gravity; reality gives them no choice. Politics, as we see, makes all human laws optional for politicians."

-- Joseph Sobran

#Reality Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Government Quotes

“Budgets are nothing if not statements of priorities.”

Source : "Kill the GOP Plan to Kill Jobs" by Sen. Jeff Merkley, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 3, 2011.
“The federal investment in finding cures for cancer - $3 billion annually [as of 1999] - is less than ... zero ... point ... zero ... zero ... zero ... four ... percent of our gross domestic product, or about one-seventh of what Americans spend on beauty products.”
“Whenever she uses the phrase 'I was thinking...,' that means I either have to move, paint or buy something.”
“Most of the people dishing out judgment have no working experience of the theatre, have not written a professional play, a sketch, or even a joke; have never worked in a theatre, taken an acting class, or published any extended piece of work. They are creative virgins; everything they know about theatre is book-learned and second-hand.”

Source : "Questions for John Lahr" by John Lahr, www.newyorker.com. January 23, 2009.
“There are heroes in evil as well as in good.”
“Remember, too, that at a time when people are very concerned with their health and its relationship to what they eat, we have handed over the responsibility for our nourishment to faceless corporations.”
“[Jack Johnson]gave me my whole start in music, which was the coolest thing ever.”
“Almost everything I do when I approach an operational problem comes from the time I've been in space. It's a way of organizing your thoughts. We use problem-solving; what we call "what-if-ing." What if this happened? What would we do? We go over plan B, C, D, E, F, and whatever else, depending on the criticality of what we're doing. This kind of thing can be applied almost everywhere, even at home.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca

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