Quotations 
Quotation: Dodd-speak
“I think it will become obvious at the time when it’s the right time, and I’ll explain that at the time when I do so.” -Sen. Christopher Dodd, a Democrat from Connecticut, quoted in the Hartford Courant. Reports emerged in June that Sen. Dodd received favorable treatment on two home mortgages from the Countrywide Financial […]
Quotation: Khalid Hosseini
Obama’s middle name differs from my last name by only two vowels. Does the McCain-Palin campaign view me as a pariah too? Do McCain and Palin think there’s something wrong with my name? -Khaled Hosseini, best-selling author of “The Kite Runner” and “A Thousand Splendid Suns,” in an op-ed in the Washington Post. (Hat tip: […]
Liquid music
“I keep looking forward to the day when music is a liquid they pour into your head.” -Wayne Coyne, of The Flaming Lips, in a New York Times piece about his Oklahoma City home.
Quotation: St. Francis of Assisi
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace; where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy. – St. Francis of Assisi (Hat tip: God’s Politics)
Quotation: BS detectors disabled
“Millions of unwary souls from every quadrant of Earth are swallowing a daily diet of quackery, conspiracy theory, bogus history and faux science. We haven’t just turned off our bullshit detectors, we’ve permanently disabled them.” -Louis Bayard, in a Salon.com review of “Counterknowledge,” a book about conspiracy theories by Damian Thompson.
Quotation: Tim Russert
From his last lecture given at Notre Dame University: “[After] all my discussions with presidents, both while in office and after they left, and their advisors, while in office and after they left, and in my reading of history, particularly presidential history, I am ever more convinced that a leader cannot make tough decisions unless […]
Quotation: A really large number
“It’s not based on any particular data point…We just wanted to choose a really large number.” -A Treasury spokeswoman explaining the $700 billion Wall Street bailout proposal figure to Forbes.com. (Hat tip: General Sense of Outrage)
Quotation: Moral instruction
“In our highly sexualized world, we have forgotten that the bulk of moral instruction that comes from scripture does not relate to who you sleep with or what happens in the event of an unwanted pregnancy.” -Will Samson, co-author of Justice in the Burbs: Being the Hands of Jesus Wherever You Live. This quotation is […]