#den

The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#democracies #mediocrity #tendency #things

Yeah, they look great, but that isn't a fantasy come true, Harry. That's a wood chipper in Playboy bunny clothing. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#consequences #dresden-files #fantasies #playboy #beauty

I don't think anybody ever thought about the CIA meddling in internal affairs. The shock of the President's death called for an immediate investigation. It actually lay in the jurisdiction of Texas. ↗

— John Sherman Cooper

#actually #affairs #anybody #called #cia

I never initiated nor did the FBI ever initiate any conversation or correspondence with me. ↗

— John Sherman Cooper

#conversation #correspondence #did #ever #fbi

My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the '40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S. ↗

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#constantly #degree #growing #growing up #important

A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the result of sudden impulse and accident than of that reason of which we so much boast. ↗

— Peter Cooper

#acts #boast #events #far #history

I read the book with interest, but when Jackson was a candidate in 1828 for the Presidency, I opposed him and voted for Adams. I favored a protective tariff. ↗

— Ezra Cornell

#book #candidate #favored #him #i

With DNA, the ability to find out a lot more with a lot less has increased our ability for identification. ↗

— Patricia Cornwell

#dna #find #identification #increased #less

If there is a nuclear tactic being used here, I submit it is the use of that obstruction where a willful minority blocks a bipartisan majority from voting on the President's judicial nominees. ↗

— John Cornyn

#being used #bipartisan #blocks #here #i

This has been on the schedule for a long time. You don't get President Clinton on a 24-hour notice. ↗

— Jon Corzine

#clinton #get #long #long time #notice