"When helicopters were snatching people from the grounds of the American embassy compound during the panic of the final Vietcong push into Saigon, I was sitting in front of the television set shouting, Get the chefs! Get the chefs!"

-- Calvin Trillin

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“My dad, Donald, was a vet and had a practice in Yorkshire. Cats and dogs were his bread and butter, but his greatest love was large animals.”

Source : "Alastair Campbell: My family values" by Angela Wintle, www.theguardian.com. July 27, 2012.
“Parents do not, indeed, live by bread alone. We feast daily on banquets of our own words.”
“There are students whose religious upbringing is going to make them feel uncomfortable in a class where certain kinds of secular ideas are presented. There are students whose ideas about history or sexuality are going to be similarly challenged to question, to affirm or to change those ideas. That doesn't mean they shouldn't be exposed to them; that's why they're at school. That's why they come to university: to be taught how to think well and critically about material that they're being presented with. But it's the teacher who is certified to teach them how to do that.”

Source : Source: www.salon.com
“I'm for the dreamers. The only really important things in history have been started by the dreamers. They never know what can't be done.”
“It is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster' every original inexhaustible beauty.”
“What a nice night for an evening.”
“So I let them be responsible for there particular areas. Then by the time it gets to me that means that there is a problem. I have my eyes open and I need to know something about every department but you don't want to micro manage any particular department.”
“I think [Whitewater]'s going to prevent the First Lady from running for Senate.”

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