Quotes # 35 Buffet, Obama, Clinton, Pleasure,Eisenhower,Legalization,Willie Horton, Rev. Wright, Superlatives, Nice People
"Capitalism without failure is like Christianity without hell". –Warren Buffet
"If someone tells you they have a pill or hormone that extends life, you're about to lose money". –Dan Buettner"The first thing people want to do when they get stressed is eat stuff that's bad for them. But the end result is that they're more stressed out because they're eating something they shouldn't have." –Heather Bauer "There are some financial institutions I can't value." --Warren Buffet"I need help." --Barrack Obama"We are not as powerful as we used to be because over the past three decades, the Asian values of our parents generation – work hard, study, save, invest, live within your means – have given way to subprime values: "You can have the American Dream – a house – with no money down and no payments for two years." --Thomas Friedman "The great divide in this country is not by race or even income, it's by those who think they are better than everyone else and think they should play by a different set of rules." -- Bill Clinton"Pleasure has rarely gone down well with the righteous, and pleasure for which there is practically no cost is the most abhorrent of all." Alasdair Macintyre "We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people." –Dwight Eisenhower"Those on the far left want legalization but they're not willing to go along with guest workers to get it, while those on the far right want guest workers but not if it means supporting legalization. The extremes never want to negotiate." --Ruben Navarette, Jr. "Wright is this year's Willie Horton. Except where Willie Horton was made by George Bush, Wright made himself." --Leonard Pitts, Jr. "These youths have a live a life of superlatives, a life which being is not just an aspiration but the status quo. They can be inspirational, and I am lucky to be able to learn from them. But they are not always nice people". –Amelia Rawls
