"If we can rebuild Iraq, we can rebuild Illinois and Indiana and if we can do Baghdad, we can do Baltimore."

-- Carol Moseley Braun

#Illinois Quotes #Iraq Quotes #Baghdad Quotes

“The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic.”
“What I have learned is that a whole lot of people with degrees don't know a damn thing, and a lot of people with no degrees are brilliant.”
“When I makes tea I makes tea, as old mother Grogan said. And when I makes water I makes water.”
“I heard that a lot and I just sort of thought, the world was an even more interesting place than the people who were making the decisions were perhaps interpreting it to be.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“You can't take credit for talent; you can only take credit for using it.”
“Mud is the most poetical thing in the world.”

Source : Reginald Horace Blyth (1984). “A History of Haiku: From the beginnings up to Issa”
“In the Negro melodies of America I find all that is needed for a great and noble school of music.”
“Divisions of the kind were fashionable at that time, and it was so easy to stifle one's need to help by deciding that help could neither be accepted nor understood.”

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