“Donald Trump often talks about running as a Republican, which is surprising. I just assumed he was running as a joke.”
Comedian Seth Meyers, at the 2011 White House Correspondents Dinner.
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Category Archives: Quotes
Quote of the day
“What I think Krugman got intuitively is that liberals understand politics as a policy argument,” says Ezra Klein, now a Washington Post columnist and then an influential political blogger. “On the right, there’s something of a cultural underlay to the worldview: We are the real Americans, and they are not. Liberals want to say, We are correct on the evidence, and they are not.”
From an insightful profile of Paul Krugman in New York magazine.
Quote of the week
“If the Queen asks you to a party, you say yes. If the Italian prime minister asks you to a party, it’s probably safe to say no.”
David Cameron.
Quote of the day
“If people insist on living as if there is no tomorrow, there really won’t be one.”
Kurt Vonnegut
Quote of the Day
You know those state occasions when important people feel they must impose a minutes silence on everyone? Do they realize this is a copyright infringement of the first 60 seconds of John Cage’s 4’33”? I think this should be enforced, along with Happy Birthday, and other mickey mouse intellectual property.
Jon Crowcroft
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“In media history up to now, the press is free to report on what the powerful wish to keep secret because the laws of a given nation protect it. But Wikileaks is able to report on what the powerful wish to keep secret because the logic of the Internet permits it. This is new.”
Quote of the Year
“See the problem isn’t that WikiLeaks is lying, the problem is that they’re telling the truth. This is not business as usual. “
Quote of the day
“The Irish banking system is worse than too big to fail; it is too big to save. The first duty of the state is to save itself, not to load its taxpayers with obligations to rescue careless lenders…The Irish state should have saved itself by drastic restructuring of bank liabilities. Bank debt simply cannot be public debt. If bank debt is to be such debt, bankers should be viewed as civil servants and banks as government departments.”
Martin Wolf, writing in today’s Financial Times.
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“Irish history is something no Englishman should forget and no Irishman should remember.”
George Bernard Shaw.
Quote of the Day
“What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence”.
Christopher Hitchens, quoted by Andrew Anthony in today’s Observer New Review.