"Women earn less than men because they are women."

“If a man says something in the woods and there are no women there, is he still wrong?”

“I gather you yellow-skinned men, despite your triumphs in sewage, drinking water, and Olympic gold medals, still don't have democracy. Some politician on the radio was saying that that's why we Indian are going to beat you: we may not have sewage, drinking water, and Olympic gold medals, but we do have democracy. If I were making a country, I'd get the sewage pipes first, then the democracy, then I'd go about giving pamphlets and statues of Gandhi to other people, but what do I know? I am just a murderer!”

Source : Aravind Adiga (2008). “The White Tiger”, p.60, Atlantic Books Ltd

“We plan to pick up another five seats in the Senate and hold the House through redistricting through 2012. And rather than negotiate with the teachers' unions and the trial lawyers and the various leftist interest groups, we intend to break them.”

Source : "Grover Norquist: The Soul of the New Machine" by Michael Scherer, www.motherjones.com. January 2004.

“To make it hard, to make it difficult almost impossible for people to cast a vote is not in keeping with the democratic process.”

“This mindless tolerance, which places observable scientific facts, subject to proof, on the same level as unprovable supernatural fantasy, has played a major role in the resurgence of both anti-intellectualism and anti-rationalism.”

Source : FaceBook post by Susan Jacoby from Aug 27, 2013

“Great accomplishments start with great aspirations.”

“Leisure: A fancy word for people who don't want to admit they're bored.”

“One isn’t born one’s self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people’s ideas – and you have to work through it all.”