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Quote Of the Day
"He could give a woodpecker a headache."
— Sen. Maj. Leader Harry Reid at the ceremonial groundbreaking for the U.S. Institute of Peace, speaking about Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, and his zealous support of the Institute.
(Submitted by our ever-observant White House Correspondent Mark Knoller. Thanks, Mark!)
— Sen. Maj. Leader Harry Reid at the ceremonial groundbreaking for the U.S. Institute of Peace, speaking about Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, and his zealous support of the Institute.
(Submitted by our ever-observant White House Correspondent Mark Knoller. Thanks, Mark!)
Quote Of The Day
Courtesy of White House correspondent Mark Knoller:
Commenting on the disruption in the airline industry because of the American Airlines flight cancellations, White House spokesman Scott Stanzel told reporters:
"Right now, we have a very safe airline transportation system. That is not by accident."
Quote Of The Day?
(AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
Some are calling her reply the Quote of the Day.
"Well, as the president has said before, when it comes to helping Republican candidates, he will campaign for them — or against them if they think that that will help."Continue »
When Words Fail
(AP/ Sam Dean, The Roanoke Times)
The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares." -- Henri Nouwen
"Every Day Is A Blessing"
(AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
I lost a mother to cancer when I was 17, same type -- same type, colon cancer. And what has happened in the field of cancer since then is a miracle...I feel every day is a blessing." -- Tony Snow, at his first White House briefing, May 16, 2007.
Quote For The Day
"I am not persuaded that another surge of troops into Baghdad for the purposes of suppressing this communitarian violence, this civil war, will work." -- Colin Powell, yesterday, speaking about the Iraq war on Face the Nation.
Quote For The Day
"He was an original; not just an American original, but an original, period. He was a happy accident; one of the happiest this century has experienced; and judging by the way it's been behaving in spite of all Disney tried to tell it about laughter, love, children, puppies and sunrises, the century hardly deserved him. He probably did more to heal or at least to soothe troubled human spirits than all the psychiatrists in the world. There can't be many adults in the allegedly civilized parts of the globe who did not inhabit Disney's mind and imagination at least for a few hours and feel better for the visitation." -- Eric Sevareid, on the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite, commenting on the death of Walt Disneyon December 15, 1966, 40 years ago today.
Quote For The Day
(CBS)
"If the freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter." – George Washington, who died on this date at his Mount Vernon, Virginia home in 1799.
He was 67 years old.
Quote For The Day
"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quote For The Day
"Basically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night -- be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels." – Francis Albert Sinatra, born on this date in 1915.
