Besley Tap Quotes

#1. Remember, the first presidential candidate to reject public financing for both the primary and general election was ... Barack Obama, in 2008. He did it, in spite of a flat pledge to the contrary, because his campaign saw that it could vastly outspend John McCain.

Jeff Greenfield

#2. The Chinese say that water is the most powerful element, because it is perfectly nonresistant. It can wear away a rock, and sweep all before it.

Florence Scovel Shinn

#3. Information is like compost; it does no good unless you spread it around.

Eliot Coleman

#4. Well, I never seen one guy take so much trouble for another guy. I just like to know what your interest is.

John Steinbeck

#5. It's amazing how once the mind is free of emotional pollution, logic and clarity emerge.

Clyde DeSouza

#6. I have many influences and poets whose work I love. My personal canon includes Blake, Keats, Dickinson, Baudelaire, Stevens, Duncan and Barbara Guest - and many living poets as well.

Brenda Hillman

#7. There are two kinds of Europeans: The smart ones, and those who stayed behind.

H.L. Mencken

#8. Each one of us has a relationship with our own ignorance, a dishonest, complicated relationship, and that dishonesty keeps us sane, happy, and willing to get out of bed in the morning.

Anonymous

#9. We have the means of evangelizing our country, but they are slumbering in the pews of our churches.

John Stott