Rostenkowski Quotes & Sayings

To the mind that could dream and shape our beaconed universe, what is injustice to us may be unfathomable tenderness, and our horror only loveliness misunderstood. — William Alexander Percy

Our photographs are filthier and our stories are more disgusting. We make no effort to be artistic. — Al Goldstein

Until we eliminate the mentality of violence, we will not find the harmony within ourselves we're looking for. — Maya Tiwari

Fundamental [tax] reform almost always runs the risk of making things worse. — Dan Rostenkowski

I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right. — Albert Einstein

Americans who grew up in the 1930s or 1940s still have some fleeting memory of what the country was like before it became the steroidal superpower it is today. — Graydon Carter

There is no Master but the Master," he said, "and QT-1 is his prophet. — Isaac Asimov

They immediately spent a moment in bemused silence in honor of the perilous little paradox that was the English female — Julie Anne Long

[G]reat progress was evident in the last Congress of the American 'Labour Union' in that among other things, it treated working women with complete equality. While in this respect the English, and still more the gallant French, are burdened with a spirit of narrow-mindedness. Anybody who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without the feminine ferment. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex (the ugly ones included). — Karl Marx

Beauty seems to strike some people as a personal affront. — Claude Debussy

The heartbreak of losing fades over time, however, the burden of quitting last forever. — Sarah Van Waterschoot

I wouldn't have thought that a wrong theory should lead us to understand better the ordinary quantum field theories or to have new insights about the quantum states of black holes. — Edward Witten

Ah, cruel fate, how swiftly joy and sorrow alternate! — Raimbaut De Vaqueyras

Don't tax you, don't tax me;
Tax the companies across the sea. — Dan Rostenkowski

Now, in calm weather, to swim in the open ocean is as easy to the practised swimmer as to ride in a spring-carriage ashore. But the awful lonesomeness is intolerable. The intense concentration of self in the middle of such a heartless immensity, my God! who can tell it? — Herman Melville

Having plead guilty, I do not believe that I am any different than the vast majority of the members of Congress. — Dan Rostenkowski