Category: Quotations

I don’t see what we could ever hope to get out of there with once we’re committed.  I don’t think it’s worth fighting for, and I don’t think we can get out.  And it’s just the biggest damn mess [remainder garbled, with Johnson and Bundy speaking at the same time].LBJ to National Security Advisor McGeorge…

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.Lao Tzu

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.George Bernard Shaw

The most important thing we are doing right now is thinking nice thoughts.Jim and Marie Burns

You’re looking so well, darling!  I don’t know what sort of cream they put on you down at the morgue, but I want some.Monsieur Gustave H., Grand Budapest Hotel

We make our own fortunes and call them fate.Benjamin Disraeli

Who are you most displeased with these days, Republicans or Democrats?Oh come on?  Really?  Seriously?  Republicans.  You know, I mean, in the last twenty years, that has not really been a choice, they just drove the short bus to crazy town at a certain point.Bill Maher being interviewed by Harry Smith on Meet The Press,…