Quote-o-Rama
March 05, 2023
Rumsfeld on France
Thank you Clark Smith. “Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was apparently not fond of the French military. However mean-spirited but hilariously, he is reported to have observed:
“Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without your accordion."
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Ancient Variation
That last quote reminds me of Gloria Steinem’s “A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.”
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Fox News Defined
“Fox News is to journalism what the Mafia is to capitalism — same basic genre, but a morally corrupt perversion of the real thing.”
―Tom Friedman
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The American Voter
Voter: “Every thinking person in America will be voting for you.”
“I’m afraid that won’t do,” Stevenson supposedly replied. “I need a majority.”
―Two-time Democratic presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson, apocryphal