Conable Quotes

#1. Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority.

Barber Conable

#2. I glanced over at him warily. "Don't start getting any ideas about her. The last time someone took a fancy to Kate, things went very badly for him."
"What happened?"
"He got shot."
"You shot him?"
"Well, no, but he did get shot.

Kenneth Oppel

#3. I don't think it's the function of Congress to function well. It should drag its heels on the way to decision.

Barber Conable

#4. Exhaustion and exasperation are frequently the handmaidens of legislative decision.

Barber Conable

#5. Good environmentalism is good economics

Barber Conable

#6. To be prepared is half the victory.

Miguel De Cervantes

#7. Whether it's steamships disrupted by the railroads or railroads disrupted by the airlines, it's typically the large entrenched incumbents that are displaced by innovators.

Peter Diamandis

#8. Women do two thirds of the world's work. Yet they earn only one tenth of the world's income and own less than one percent of the world's property. They are among the poorest of the world's poor.

Barber Conable

#9. You're allowed to have gravitas when you've got the wrinkles to prove it, but not when you're attractive and younger - or, at least, you have to fight really hard to prove you're capable of productive thought.

Mariella Frostrup

#10. In an effort to reclaim our humanity, let us find new motivation for living by opening our minds to broader concepts of spirituality.

Kevin Powell