"No one from the intelligence community, anyplace else ever came in and said, â€˜What if Saddam is doing all this deception because he actually got rid of the WMD and he doesn't want the Iranians to know?' Now somebody should have asked that question. I should have asked that question. Nobody did. Turns out that was the most important question in terms of the intelligence failure that never got asked."

-- Stephen Hadley

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“I think when you work out a lot, you can afford to eat more because your body's metabolism is higher.”

Source : Source: www.harpersbazaar.com
“It is very important for young people keep their sense of wonder and keep asking why.”

Source : "Q & A: Stephen Hawking and daughter Lucy". Today interview, www.today.com. November 2, 2007.
“At this point, I don't get hired a lot because people don't think I could finance a movie.”
“Basic US economics tells us that back-of-the-house workers are very unlikely to get more pay overall. The fact that workers are in those jobs means employers are already paying them what they need to pay them to get them in the current environment. If employers do share some tips with them, it will likely be offset by a reduction in their base pay.”
“You might have been paid back enough to suit you" I said, "but I don't know if you've been paid back enough to suit me.”
“Rugby football is a game I can't claim absolutely to understand in all its niceties, if you know what I mean. I can follow the broad, general principles, of course. I mean to say, I know that the main scheme is to work the ball down the field somehow and deposit it over the line at the other end and that, in order to squalch this programme, each side is allowed to put in a certain amount of assault and battery and do things to its fellow man which, if done elsewhere, would result in 14 days without the option, coupled with some strong remarks from the Bench.”
“The people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government and to reform, alter, or totally change the same when their protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it.”

Source : "‘Hamilton’ Vs. Trump: Free-speech Duels Go on From Broadway to L.A.: Guest Commentary" by Ed Rampell, www.dailynews.com. November 23, 2016.
“Practically anything you read or hear about racism, sexism, and homophobia is cant.”

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