Ratigan Quotes

#1. The worst possible turn can not be programmed. It is caused by coincidence.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

#2. The first half of Vietnam was fought to win the war, and the second half of Vietnam was soldiers going haywire without a mission, getting further and further towards our friend, Captain Kurtz and our friends at 'Apocalypse Now.'

Dylan Ratigan

#3. Beggars remind us that not all miseries arise from our ideas.

Mason Cooley

#4. Whatever is old corrupts, and the past turns to snakes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#5. The proportionality of what has happened to America because of unemployment and housing makes everything else look like a flea on a dog's ass.

Dylan Ratigan

#6. My philosophy of dating is to just fart right away.

Jenny McCarthy

#7. Just as nuclear fuel will always be reactive, people will always be greedy. We need to enforce rules to balance natural greed with capital requirements so that greed can create productive risk taking and competition and not short-term extraction, otherwise known as theft.

Dylan Ratigan

#8. People of the United States of America, your Congress is bought, your Congress is incapable of making legislation on healthcare, banking, trade, or taxes because if they do it, they will lose their political funding and they won't do it.

Dylan Ratigan

#9. Creativity doesn't just happen - you make it happen. Changing daily routines is one way to access creativity.

Nita Leland

#10. The focus should be on the players. I'm here a long time. You can call me in the summer. Our seniors will be gone.

Dean Smith

#11. If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.

Charles Spurgeon

#12. We become human only in the company of other human beings. And this involves both opening our hearts and giving voice to our deepest convictions ... When we shrink from the world, our souls shrink, too.

Paul Rogat Loeb

#13. I saw brilliant ideas coming out of the [Chipko] movement that needed better articulation, that needed elaboration and systematic analysis. I just followed that and it's been very exciting.

Vandana Shiva