Politicians "The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them we are missing." _ Gamel Abdel Nasser _________________________________________________________________________ "Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters." _ Ross Presser ________________________________________________________________________ All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible. T. E. Lawrence _The Seven Pillars of Wisdom_ _________________________________________________________________________ Always do what you are afraid to do. Emerson _________________________________________________________________________ "It's said that 'power corrupts', but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. When they do act, they think of it as service, which has limits. The tyrant, though, seeks mastery, for which he is insa- tiable, implacable." David Brin _The Postman_ ________________________________________________________________________ H. L. Mencken: "The American public knows what it wants, and deserves to get it good and hard." _________________________________________________________________________ "Hankerin' for trouble, eh? Well I would like_" [aside] "I would like? I would like a trip to Europe!" "_I would like..." _Daffy Duck, "Dripalong Daffy" "Go on! Shoot me again! I enjoy it! I love the smell of burnt feathers and gunpowder and cordite!" _Daffy Duck, "Duck! Rabbit! Duck!" _________________________________________________________________________ "Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And East is East and West is West and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh... Now you tell me what you know." _Groucho Marx, "Animal Crackers" _________________________________________________________________________ "Go! And never darken my towels again!" _Groucho Marx, "Duck Soup". _________________________________________________________________________ "Oh, I know it's a penny here and a penny there, but look at me. I worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty." _Groucho Marx, "Monkey Business" _________________________________________________________________________ "The shortest distance between two points is through Hell." _Brian Clark _________________________________________________________________________ There are three side effects of acid. Enchanced long term memory, decreased short term memory, and I forget the third. -Timothy Leary _________________________________________________________________________ "I'm a great housekeeper. I get divorced. I keep the house". _ Zsa Zsa Gabor _________________________________________________________________________ "The will to win is worthless if you don't get paid for it" (Reggie Jackson) I have some better ones that I'll send you once I get them. Paul Wilbert _________________________________________________________________________ "The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss." - Hitchhiker's _________________________________________________________________________ James Bond: What do you expect me to talk? A.Goldfinger: No Mr. Bond, I expect you to die! Goldfinger