"Justified or not, the Supreme Court has a kind of sacred status in American life. For whatever reason, Presidents can safely run against Congress, and vice versa, but I think there is an inherent popular aversion to assaults on the court itself. Perhaps it has to do with an instinctive belief that life needs umpires."

-- Jon Meacham

#Running Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Umpires Quotes

“I'm bleeding, I'm not just making conversation.”
“Why do babies starve /When there's enough food to feed the world /Why when there's so many of us /Are there people still alone”
“It isnâ€™t happiness I am concerned with but experience.”
“But of course when people watch morning television, Terry, it's a very different animal. You know, they're running around, they're getting their kids ready for school, they're probably doing eight million things, they're brushing their teeth.”
“And one of my favorites was Eddy Arnold of course. He just had that smooth, soulful voice.”
“I will always be upfront with the Greek people, so we can solve the country's problems together.”
“I still say if the ball is there to be won I will go for it, whether with my head or whatever, and if it means us scoring or stopping a goal, I won't think twice.”
“I heard Governor Romney here called me an economic lightweight because I wasn't a Wall Street financier like he was. Do you really believe this country wants to elect a Wall Street financier as the president of the United States? Do you think that's the experience that we need? Someone who's going to take and look after as he did his friends on Wall Street and bail them out at the expense of Main Street America.”

Source : "Scrambling Santorum lashes out at Romney in pivotal state of Illinois" by Ewen MacAskill, www.theguardian.com. March 19, 2012.

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