"I must say I am not pleased to have to arrange the Senate schedule around the availability of Senators who are running for President."

-- Arlen Specter

#Running Quotes #Availability Quotes #Romance Quotes

“The mindless rejoicing at home is really appalling; it makes me fear that the first blow against Tokyo will make them wilt at once...I only wish that [the Americans] had also had, say, three carriers at Hawaii...”
“The great danger to the consumer is the monopoly -whether private or governmental. His most effective protection is free competition at home and free trade throughout the world. The consumer is protected from being exploited by one seller by the existence of another seller from whom he can buy and who is eager to sell to him. Alternative sources of supply protect the consumer far more effectively than all the Ralph Naders of the world.”
“Why should every single character be an honor student who goes around helping others and never doing anything wrong? Is that like the rule or something?”
“I don't understand why it's more socially acceptable to say that you are a shallow person than to just say this is not something you want to do. Especially because it's a really hard job. It's a really important job. And why the hell should you do a really hard, important job that you don't want to do? That has extremely high stakes? That just blows my mind.”
“The fetters of tyranny were not stricken from America for the sake of Americans alone.”
“The source of most human violence and suffering has been a hidden children's holocaust throughout history, whereby billions of innocent human beings have been routinely murdered, bound, starved, raped, mutilated, battered, and tortured by their parents and other caregivers, so that they grow up as emotionally crippled adults and become vengeful time bombs who periodically restage their early traumas in sacrificial rites called wars.”
“I was a tomboy right from the time I was a kid and loved to be like that. I'd hate all the girlie things. Well my best friends as a kid have been boys. I get along best with the opposite sex. I guess that's the case with most people though!”
“Madoff Securities is the world's largest Ponzi scheme.”

Source : Harry Markopolos (2010). “No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller”, p.299, John Wiley & Sons

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