Nancy Kassebaum Quotes

#1. Nancy [Kassebaum] and I worked on a women's health agenda when I first came. Women were not included in the protocols at NIH, the famous study, 'take an aspirin a day, keep the doctor, you know, a heart attack away.' It was done on ten thousand male medical students.

Barbara Mikulski

#2. The fastest way to get me to go out and do something is to tell me no way I can do it.

Evelyn Ashford

#3. My male colleagues sometimes wonder if I understand as much about defense as I ought to. Of course if I agree with them, they think that I do.

Nancy Kassebaum

#4. Legal imposition avoids the necessity of honour or good faith.

Mahatma Gandhi

#5. My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith.

Olivier Messiaen

#6. No person that has ever felt the benefits of being present can consider himself a victim, or unhappy in any way.

Lidiya K.

#7. We stood
the dead child and the living
on either side of my father, both wanting the same thing. To have him to ourselves forever. To please us both was an impossibility.

Alice Sebold

#8. There can be infinite uses of the computer and of new age technology, but if teachers themselves are not able to bring it into the classroom and make it work, then it fails.

Nancy Kassebaum

#9. When I started acting, I thought everything should be issue-based and that there should be a helpline at the end of every program.

Jason Isaacs

#10. Free Speech in the College Community is a very timely book written by a dedicated scholar of the First Amendment. Challenging and readable it should be studied by all academicians, students, legislators and lawyers.

Nancy Kassebaum

#11. Words: with them you can do and undo as you please.

Elena Ferrante