"While no inference is intended here, it is worth noting, in connection with Milton Friedman's comment that "Kelso just turned Marx upside down," that it is not necessarily amiss to turn a fellow upside down if that in fact straightens out his thinking."

-- Louis O. Kelso

#Thinking Quotes #Connections Quotes #Politics Quotes

“The one important thing you do as boss is you set the standard. The minute you go in and say 'we'll let it go this time,' you set a new standard, which is lower. So you cannot do that.”
“The purpose of the UN mechanism, this inspection mechanism, is not to engage in a cat and mouse game with Saddam Hussein and try to find weapons that the Iraqi government is working on concealing.”
“As a little girl I used to daydream about my real father coming on a white horse to rescue me.”

Source : "The lady's not a tramp". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2001.
“Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.”
“The essence of America - that which really unites us - is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion - it is an idea - and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things.”

Source : "Condoleezza Rice outshines Paul Ryan at the Republican convention" by Ana Marie Cox, www.theguardian.com. August 30, 2012.
“My hands tend to be full enough dealing with people who hate me for who I am. Concentrate too hard on the millions of people who hate you for what you are and you're likely to turn into one of those unkempt, sloppy dressers who sag beneath the weight of the two hundred political buttons they wear pinned to their coats and knapsacks.”
“A god could hardly love and be wise.”
“The rest were vulgar deaths unknown to fame.”

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