"No president is well-served by groupthink or by everybody singing from the same sheet of music they think he's on."

-- Robert M. Gates

#Thinking Quotes #Singing Quotes #President Quotes

“Beginning with the first day of life outside the womb, every child is asking two core questions: 'Am I loved?' and 'Can I get my own way?' These two questions mark us throughout life, and the answers we receive set the course for how we live.”
“It was really really neat to make the movie because there were mentally challenged actors in the movie. So that was really really cool to work with them and they were always really happy, and they made everybody really happy on the set too.”
“I don't have a director. The audience directs me.”
“Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous.”
“We start from Kuwait, and to Kuwait we end. Anyone but that, is not from Kuwait, and Kuwait is not from them.”
“Most nanny-state initiatives begin on a local level.”

Source : "Nanny State 911!". Interview with Nick Gillespie, www.reason.com. September 28, 2007.
“I was just thinking, if it is really religion with these nudist colonies, they sure must turn atheists in the wintertime.”
“Unfortunately I'm still not a fashion expert.”

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