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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort - Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)

I hate flowers. I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move. - Georgia O'Keefe

If you spend more on coffee than on IT security, you will be hacked. What's more, you deserve to be hacked. - Former White House Cybersecurity Advisor Richard Clark

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. - Plato

The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers. - Richard W. Hamming

In a democracy dissent is an act of faith - J. William Fullbright

Three can keep a secret if two are dead. - Ben Franklin

Complaining is good for you as long as you're not complaining to the person you're complaining about. - Lynn Johnston

"As people do better, they start voting like Republicans... unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing." - Karl Rove, Ex-Bush Advisor

I'm like the phone company. I'm reaching out and touching you all as hard as I can. - the late Ol' Dirty Bastard

"The big danger is one of hubris. There's a tendency after you win your second term to think you're invulnerable. You're not just king of the mountain, you've mastered the mountain. That can often lead to mistakes of excessive pride." - David R. Green, fo

"You fucking son of a bitch. I saw what you wrote. We're not going to forget this." - George W. Bush to writer and editor Al Hunt, 1988

"You've heard Al Gore say he invented the internet. Well, if he was so smart, why do all the addresses begin with W?" - George W. Bush 10-28-00

"If you don't stand for anything, you don't stand for anything!" - George W. Bush

"Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream." - George W. Bush, LaCrosse, Wisconsin, Oct. 18, 2000

"If I'm the president, we're going to have emergency-room care, we're going to have gag orders." - George W. Bush

"Drug therapies are replacing a lot of medicines as we used to know it." - George W. Bush

"It's one thing about insurance, that's a Washington term." - George W. Bush

"I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun." - George W. Bush

"Mr. Vice President, in all due respect, it is I'm not sure 80 percent of the people get the death tax. I know this: 100 percent will get it if I'm the president." - George W. Bush

"Quotas are bad for America. It's not the way America is all about." - George W. Bush

"If affirmative action means what I just described, what I'm for, then I'm for it." - George W. Bush, St. Louis, Mo., October 18, 2000

"Our priorities is our faith." - George W. Bush, Greensboro, N.C., Oct. 10, 2000

"I mean, there needs to be a wholesale effort against racial profiling, which is illiterate children." - George W. Bush, Second presidential debate, Oct. 11, 2000

"It's going to require numerous IRA agents." - George W. Bush, On Gore's tax plan, Greensboro, N.C., Oct. 10, 2000

"I think if you know what you believe, it makes it a lot easier to answer questions. I can't answer your question." George W. Bush, in response to a question about whether he wished he could take back any of his answers in the first debate. Reynoldsburg,

"It's a school full of so-called at-risk children. It's how we, unfortunately, label certain children. It means basically they can't learn." - George W. Bush

"I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully." - George W. Bush, 10/03/2000

"Managing senior programmers is like herding cats." - Dave Platt

Restrictions of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us. - William O. Douglas

The Revolution was effected before the war commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people. This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments and affections of the people was the real American Revolution. - John Adams

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. - John F. Kennedy

Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order. - John V. Lindsay

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want rain without thunder and lightning. - Frederick Douglass

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. - Reinhold Niebuhr

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein

"I don't want to run a company. I'm not good at managing people. You have a problem with the guy in the next cubicle? I don't care. Shoot him or something." - Marc Andreessen, founder of Netscape, in Rolling Stone May 1997

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it. -

The French Revolution of a hundred and fifty years ago gradually ushered in an age of political equality, but the times have changed, and that by itself is not enough today. The boundaries of democracy have to be widened now so as to include economic equa

If our economy of freedom fails to distribute wealth as ably as it has created it, the road to dictatorship will be open to any man who can persuasively promise security to all. - Will Durant

This is Preservation Month. I appreciate preservation. It's what you do when you run for president. You gotta preserve. - George W. Bush, speaking during Perseverance Month at Fairground Elementary School. 01/28/2000

I understand small business growth. I was one. - George W. Bush, 02/19/2000

It is clear our nation is reliant upon big foreign oil. More and more of our imports come from overseas. - George W. Bush, 10/25/2000

I want each and every American to know for certain that I'm responsible for the decisions I make, and each of you are as well. - George W. Bush, 10/20/2000

They misunderestimated me. - George W. Bush, 11/06/2000

I think anybody who doesn't think I'm smart enough to handle the job is underestimating. - George W. Bush, 04/03/2000

There's a huge trust. I see it all the time when people come up to me and say, 'I don't want you to let me down again'. - George W. Bush, 10/03/2000

Well, I think if you say you're going to do something and don't do it, that's trustworthiness. - George W. Bush, 08/30/2000

The best way to relieve families from time is to let them keep some of their own money. - George W. Bush, 10/13/2000

I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family. - George W. Bush, 01/27/2000

Reading is the basics for all learning. - George W. Bush, 03/28/2000

One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures. - George W. Bush, 01/03/2000

Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning? - George W. Bush, 01/11/2000

Laura and I really don't realize how bright our children is sometimes until we get an objective analysis. - George W. Bush, 04/15/2000

It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it. - George W. Bush, 05/05/2000

I don't read what's handed to me. - George W. Bush, 03/15/2000

The woman who knew that I had dyslexia, I never interviewed her. - George W. Bush, 10/15/2000

As governor of Texas, I have set high standards for our public schools, and I have met those standards. - George W. Bush, 08/30/2000

We'll let our friends be the peacekeepers and the great country called America will be the pacemakers. - George W. Bush, 09/06/2000

The fundamental question is, Will I be a successful president when it comes to foreign policy? I will be, but until I'm the president, it's going to be hard for me to verify that I think I'll be more effective. - George W. Bush, 06/27/2000

I hope to get a sense of, should I be fortunate enough to be the president, how my administration will react to the Middle East. - George W. Bush, 10/12/2000

Vote early and vote often. - Al Capone

I don't even know what street Canada is on. - Al Capone

You can get a lot more done with a kind word and a gun, than with a kind word alone. - Al Capone

When I sell liquor, it's called bootlegging. When my patrons serve it on Lake Shore Drive, it's called hospitality. - Al Capone

This American system of ours, call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you will, gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we seize it with both hands and make the most of it. - Al Capone

Other kids are brought up nice and sent to Harvard and Yale. Me? I was brought up like a mushroom. - Frank Costello

Honest people have no ethics. - Sam DeCavalcante

One hand washes the other... both hands wash the face. - Sam Giancana

I never lie to any man because I don't fear anyone. The only time you lie is when you are afraid. - John Gotti

He who is deaf, blind, and silent, lives a thousand years in peace. - John Gotti

Three-to-one odds I beat this. - John Gotti

Never open your mouth unless you're in the dentist chair. - Sammy "The Bull" Gravano

Everybody has a price. - Jimmy Hoffa

Run from a knife and rush a gun. - Jimmy Hoffa

Always overpay your taxes. That way you'll get a refund. - Meyer Lansky

Don't lie, Tell one lie, then you gotta tell another lie to compound on the first. - Meyer Lansky

Behind every great fortune, there is a crime! - Charlie  Lucky  Luciano

There's no such thing as good money or bad money. There's just money - Charlie  Lucky  Luciano

Ever since we was kids, we always knew that people can be bought. It was only a question of who did the buying and for how much. - Charlie  Lucky  Luciano

The United States of America versus Anthony Spilotro. Now what kind of odds are those? - Anthony  Tough Tony  Spilotro

Always be nice to bankers. Always be nice to pension fund managers. Always be nice to the media. In that order. - John Gotti

If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn't have a job if he was any smarter. - John Gotti

"I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I've ever known." - Walt Disney

"Nobody shot me." - Frank Gusenberg's last words when asked by police who shot him 14 times with a machine gun in the St. Valentine's Day Massacre

"I have spent a lot of time searching through the Bible for loopholes." - W.C. Fields

"I don't want a lawyer to tell me what I can't do. I hire him to tell me how to do what I want to do." - J.P. Morgan

"I find this corpse guilty of carrying a concealed weapon and fine it $40." - Judge Roy Bean, finding a pistol and $40 on a man he'd just shot

"A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on." - Samuel Goldwyn

"Computers in the future may weigh no more than one and a half tons." - Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science in 1949

"Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life." - Brooke Shields

"More than the usual number of flakes shut the government down in Washington today." - WNYW Channel 5 News during the Blizzard of 1996

"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?" - Albert Einstein

Shooting the users in the foot is bad. Giving them a gun isn't. - Gordon Schumacher, Mozilla bug #84128

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. - Albert Einstein

If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith. - Albert Einstein

Experience is a dear teacher, and only fools will learn from no other. - Benjamin Franklin

Genius without education is like silver in the mine. - Benjamin Franklin

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money. - Benjamin Franklin

If your head is wax, don't walk in the sun. - Benjamin Franklin

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