Scapolite Quotes & Sayings

There is no question that Iraq possesses biological and chemical weapons and that he [Saddam Hussein] seeks to acquire additional weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear weapons. That is not in debate. I also agree with President Bush that Saddam Hussein is a threat to peace and must be disarmed, to quote President Bush directly. — Christopher Dodd

Can one truly be passionate about something if they are not committed to it? — Monica Johnson

If you can, you must. — Bikram Choudhury

Why target two and a half million innocent newborns and children?" Barbara Loe Fisher asks of the hep B vaccine. The implication behind the word innocent is that only those who are not innocent need protection from disease. All of us who grew up during the AIDS epidemic were exposed to the idea that AIDS was a punishment for homosexuality, promiscuity, and addiction. But if disease is a punishment for anything, it is only a punishment for being alive. When I was a child, I asked my father what causes cancer and he paused for a long moment before saying, "Life. Life causes cancer." I took this as an artful dodge until I read Siddhartha Mukherjee's history of cancer, in which he argues not only that life causes cancer but that cancer is us. "Down to their innate molecular core," Mukherjee writes, "cancer cells are hyperactive, survival-endowed, scrappy, fecund, inventive copies of ourselves." And this, he notes, "is not a metaphor. — Eula Biss

I'd hope to reach any kid who feels apart from the group - those who seem to be outsiders, who feel different. Kids who want to reach their parents often don't know how to do so. — Ellen Muth

Our view is that economic isolationism is the wrong way to go. Vibrant, successful growing economies that advance the interests of their citizens engage the global economy. And, we're committed to engaging the global economy. — John W. Snow

I'm for catching every Japanese in America, Alaska, and Hawai'i now and putting them in concentration camps. — Francis Biddle

To believe in God is to wager everything on the person who created everything, and no mistake could ever arise out of that. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

What's encouraging is that the early new platforms - Kindle and iPad - are clearly leading to people buying more books. The data is in on that. — Steven Johnson

What wealth is it to have such friends that we cannot think of them without elevation! — Henry David Thoreau