Adm Quotes & Sayings

Going After Cacciato — Thomas C. Foster

I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton. — Jack Adams

When I first met Mandela, we did not discuss anything of substance; we just felt each other out. He spent a long time expressing his admiration for the Boer generals and how ingenious they were during the Anglo-Boer war. — F. W. De Klerk

I can remember when I was a bit of an ETA fan myself. It was in 1973, when a group of Basque militants assassinated Adm. Carrero Blanco. The admiral was a stone-faced secret police chief, personally groomed to be the successor to the decrepit Francisco Franco. His car blew up, killing only him and his chauffeur with a carefully planted charge, and not only was the world well rid of another fascist, but, more important, the whole scheme of extending Franco's rule was vaporized in the same instant. The dictator had to turn instead to Crown Prince Juan Carlos, who turned out to be the best Bourbon in history and who swiftly dismantled Franco's entire system. If this action was 'terrorism,' it had something to be said for it. Everyone I knew in Spain made a little holiday in their hearts when the gruesome admiral went sky-high. — Christopher Hitchens

The top threat that gets very little focus from Washington these days is what Adm. Mike Mullen identified as the biggest threat to the U.S.: the American debt. — Mark Sanford

Though they won't say, it has been estimated that Cargill and ADM together probably buy somewhere near a third of all the corn grown in America. — Michael Pollan

Many have come to realization simply by listening to the tinkling of a bell or some other sound — Philip Kapleau

Presidents don't make new friends. That's why they've got to keep their old ones. Adm. Fitzwallace — Aaron Sorkin

One must look at what impiety hates, what puts it in a rage, what it attacks always, everywhere, and with fury - that will be the truth. — Isaiah Berlin

They've destroyed small farms and local economies across the globe. And now, they own patents on the seeds themselves. Those seeds represent the knowledge, labor, and heritage of all of humanity, and their DNA is now owned by Monsanto and ConAgra and ADM. They're the oligarchs of food, the pater familias of life itself. "The ownership, genetic code, practices and profits of agriculture are being collected in fewer and fewer hands - hands that have no dirt under the fingernails," writes George Pyle. — Anonymous

The Fascist utopia, like that of the Communists, was false, and generated immense suffering. But there were those who dreamed it sincerely. — Norman Davies