"So we are now still dependent on foreign oil, have a problem with global warming, and are losing jobs rapidly to the Japanese in fuel-efficient vehicles as a result of that very shortsighted progress."

“If we can successfully lift the stranglehold of bureaucracy and old ways of thinking, we can see some real innovation in biodiversity conservation in Egypt as has occurred elsewhere in the world. It's the government's call. If they continue to put people in high-level positions that have no knowledge, experience or even interest in environment, Egypt will not advance. The country has very good national experts so why not use them?”

“I feel that good food should be a right and not a privilege, and it needs to be without pesticides and herbicides. And everybody deserves this food. And that's not elitist”

Source : "Foodies Celebrate White House Veggie Garden" by Kate Barrett, Brian Hartman, abcnews.go.com. March 20, 2009.

“I'm from Cleveland. I like thunderstorms; I like a little rain in my life.”

Source : "Interview: Mike Mizanin and Francia Raisa Talk Christmas Bounty". Press Conference, www.shockya.com. November 26, 2013.

“No new reader, however charitable, could open “Fifty Shades of Grey,” browse a few paragraphs, and reasonably conclude that the author was writing in her first language, or even her fourth.”

Source : "No Pain, No Gain" by Anthony Lane, www.newyorker.com. February 23 & March 2, 2015.

“There are some people, by the way, that associate a certain amount of visualization with the performance of music. Those are people that really are not centrally concerned only with music, the traditional things.”

“Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.”

“I know that with perfect play, God versus God, Fritz versus Fritz, chess is a draw.”

“By and large, the world wants to move away from the nuclear era. The question is how fast and how far. In a world of sovereign nation-states, I can't rationalize any number above zero. If it's more than zero, you have to acknowledge every nation has the right to have them.”

Source : Source: articles.chicagotribune.com