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“But the key thing is that Iraq, while it's got very large oil reserves, has marginalized itself as an oil exporter and these days its exports are only about one tenth that of neighboring Saudi Arabia.”
Source : "CNN American Morning with Paula Zahn". www.cnn.com. September 3, 2002.
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“All schoolchildren are hostages to red tape and fiscal insufficiency.”
Source : Rosellen Brown (1998). “Civil Wars”, Delta
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“Remember, there are two things that keep us oppressed: them and us. We are half of the equation. There will not be a magic day when we wake up and it's now OK to express ourselves publicly. We must make that day ourselves, by speaking out publicly -- first in small numbers, then in greater numbers, until it's simply the way things are and no one thinks twice. Never doubt that we will create this world, because, my friends, we are fortunate to live in a democracy, and in a democracy, we decide what's possible.”
Source : "Tammy Baldwin, Our Voice of the Future" by Kristen Hotham Carroll, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 7, 2012.
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“Skepticism is not a position; skepticism is an approach to claims, in the same way that science is not a subject but a method.”
Source : Michael Shermer (2002). “Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time”, p.17, Holt Paperbacks
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“I have no weakness for shoes. I wear very simple shoes which are pump shoes. It is not one of my weaknesses.”
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“When a woman is making love with a man, a sense of heat in her brain, which brings forth with it sensual delight, communicates the taste of that delight during the act and summons forth the emission of the man's seed. And when the seed has fallen into its place, that vehement heat descending from her brain draws the seed to itself and holds it, and soon the woman's sexual organs contract and all parts that are ready to open up during the time of menstruation now close, in the same way as a strong man can hold something enclosed in his fist.”
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“The tartness of his face sours ripe grapes.”
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“Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses....we must be learning all of our lives.”