Modernizing Government Quotes

#1. Take Obama's challenge, in January 2010, to the assembled CEOs at the Forum on Modernizing Government: "If you can book dinner on OpenTable, or a flight on Southwest or United online, then why shouldn't you be able to make an appointment at your local Social Security office the same way?

Aneesh Chopra

#2. Recently, I spent eight days in a car with my co-host from Top Gear James May, who has a notoriously flatulent bottom. But because he was living on army rations the interior was always pine fresh and lemon zesty.

Jeremy Clarkson

#3. I don't like a lot of frills and fusses.

Nancy Reagan

#4. Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.

Alan Alda

#5. Wondering what I'm doing tonight I've been in the closet and feel all right

Dee Dee Ramone

#6. When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with and humored a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.

William Temple

#7. You're not a virgin and you didn't get divorced, but suddenly there's this thing you can start doing again with someone who is not your husband.

Ann Benjamin

#8. The higher self knows there is no right or wrong, no good or bad, and accepts that both light and dark must exist to maintain the balance of the whole.

Heidi DuPree

#9. Poverty makes people sub-human Excess of wealth makes people inhuman

Groucho Marx

#10. Happiness is an 'I' thing," Culligan says. "It's within yourself. Nothing external is going to make you happy.

Lionel Fisher

#11. Disturbing anything [situation] results in damage. To improve, you do not need to disturb anything that is natural and has turned bad. You need to make way out; you need to find a solution.

Dada Bhagwan

#12. I go back to my desk, flip open my cell, and stare at the keypad. I want to hear his voice so badly, to be connected to him, to ask him why and how and what I can do to make it better. But you can't force someone to love you.

Daria Snadowsky

#13. When you stop searching and you calm down and you put your books away, and you confront yourself and see what you are all about, that will bring about bliss faster than anything you can ever imagine or ever do.

Robert Adams

#14. If we put our soul into our work, if, rather than just going through the motions, what we do flows from the deepest part of our being, then after a burst of creativity, we need to replenish our souls.

Harold S. Kushner