Dave Barry Quotes

Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes.

Dave Barry

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BusinessOrganizationNeverTaxes

Bullies may land a punch. They might leave a mark. But they have never, not once, in the history of our United States, managed to match the strength and spirit of a people united in defense of their future.

Joe Kennedy III

StrengthFutureHistoryPeopleLand

It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof.

John Desmond Bernal

ScienceLongPossibleEssenceProof

Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it!

John Ciardi

FunGameWayHardThingsMankind

The budget enforcement rules of the 1990s were an important part of getting the budget back into balance. It was done on a bipartisan basis. Those pay-as-you-go rules were tested and they worked. We are now in a one-party system, and we have thrown them out.

Melissa Bean

BalanceBudgetBackRulesDoneNow

Whatever historical or ideological relevance the Iowa caucus has will more than likely not get you to the White House, but it will probably get you a sweet gig at Fox News.

Meghan McCain

SweetYouHouseWhiteNewsFox

Broadway is a very different kind of place. It's kind of like Nashville in that there's a certain amount of people that are involved, and those people are what run it.

John Mellencamp

PeoplePlaceKindRunNashville

An approximate answer to the right question is worth far more than a precise answer to the wrong one.

John Tukey

WorthWrongMoreQuestionRightFar

Christians are nonviolent not, therefore, because we believe that nonviolence is a strategy to rid the world of war, but because nonviolence is constitutive of what it means to be a disciple to Jesus.

Stanley Hauerwas

WarWorldBelieveStrategyBecause

Which other people in this world stop up holes in their sidewalks with cassava, brothers and sisters? Only Indonesia itself, on account of the abundance of its food.

Sukarno

FoodPeopleWorldStopAbundanceUp

Cat Stevens' music, voice, and energy made me feel so secure. He sounded different from some of the paternal figures in my life, so gentle and kind.

Rivers Cuomo

LifeMusicMeEnergyVoiceMy Life

I love our daughters more than anything in the world - more than life itself. And while that may not be the first thing that some folks want to hear from an Ivy-league-educated lawyer, it is truly who I am. So for me, being Mom-in-Chief is, and always will be, job number one.

Michelle Obama

LifeLoveJobI AmMeWorld

In this industry, you're so used to heartbreak because nine out of 10 times, you don't get what you want. But, that one out of 10 times, you do and it's just the best feeling in the world.

Josh Lawson

BestWorldYouFeelingWantOut

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