Posted on 07/11/2006 5:27:07 AM PDT by NativeNewYorker
Select quotes from Aspen Ideas Festival
"The most dangerous things on Earth are ideas. Without them people would not be motivated to kill others or to die for them for their cause."
-- Mike McConnell, former director of U.S. National Security Agency, at "Terrorism, Technology and Globalism"
"I know we have a qualified judge and this is to take nothing away from his qualifications, but I wish he (Judge Samuel Alito) was in a skirt. At the end of the day a wise old woman and a wise old man will reach the same conclusion."
-- Sandra Day O'Connor, former U.S. Supreme Court justice, at "Independence of the Judiciary"
"My wife called me and said we need an e-mail account for our son Ezra, and I said, 'But he's only 6 months old.'"
-- Peter Beinart, The New Republic editor at large, at "Consuming the New Media"
"When I die Watergate is going to be in the goddamn lead, isn't it?"
-- Benjamin C. Bradlee, Washington Post vice president, at "The Future of Investigative Journalism"
"We don't need activist judges. We need activist citizens who go out and make the kinds of communities they want. What we're doing is hard enough."
-- Stephen G. Breyer, U.S. Supreme Court justice, at "Independence of the Judiciary"
"Overall the system is broken. I don't think anyone can sit here and feel comfortable with the health care system. We need comprehensive systematic change."
-- Victor J. Dzau, Duke University Health System president and CEO, at "The Future of Health Care"
"The American dream is largely broken if not irreversibly destroyed."
-- Dr. Douglas E. Schoen at "What Do American Voters Really Want in '06?"
"The American dream is alive and well in Denmark."
-- Michael Sandel, Harvard University professor, at "American Democracy"
"We're spending a lot of time exporting democracy overseas, but in my judgment we should spend less time on that and more time repairing our democracy at home."
-- David Gergen, Harvard University Center for Public Leadership director, at "American Democracy"
"It is a conservative war because it is quintessentially conservative in the way it's gone wrong. ... It's the most half-ass war we've ever fought."
-- Richard Cohen, Washington Post columnist, at "Conservatism in America"
"Al-Qaida is now more of a spontaneous terrorist movement in which Bin Laden is an inspiration rather than an operational leader, but that doesn't mean there isn't another attack on the way."
-- Sir Richard Dearlove, former chief of the British Secret Intelligence Service, at "Terrorism, Technology and Globalism"
"We have 3.5 million educators in this country. Many of them are passionate. Many of them are motivated. But all too many of them are disengaged."
-- Marion A. Bolden, Newark Public Schools superintendent, at "Today's Schools: Changing an Opportunity for Some to an Opportunity for All"
"I'm a hothead. I admit it."
-- Karl Rove, senior adviser to President Bush, at "A Conversation With Karl Rove"
"I can't speak for the United States government. I can barely speak for myself."
-- Wolf Blitzer, host of CNN's "The Situation Room," at "The State of Israel Today"
Quotes collected and compiled by Aspen Daily News Staff Writer Troy Hooper.
Man am I glad O'Connor is off the court. Some of the things she has said since leaving bring her sanity into question.
If that is true, then it doesn't matter whether the judge is a man or a woman.........or maybe she just wants to see men in skirts?.......
Then it doesn't matter what sex they are, does it?
But then, logic was never her strong suit....
Ain't that the truth!
If, at the end of the day, a wise woman and wise man reach the same decision, why does she so strongly wish Justice Alito "wore a skirt?"
Since she (along with her penchant for looking to international law) is thankfully gone, she can dream about Alito in a Maidenform bra for all I care.
IMO, because like the majority of feminists, deep down she dislikes and distrusts males but won't say it in public.
PS. The above was a joke.
-- Mike McConnell, former director of U.S. National Security Agency, at "Terrorism, Technology and Globalism"
Yep, and without them people wouldn't be willing to sacrifice and die for freedom. That would make the socialists and communists very happy.
Pressed the abuse button on myself (not the first time).
So, I wish all women were in skirts, I wish all men wore pants, like Judge Alito does, and I wish Sandra Day O'Connor had never been a supreme court judge!
WillieGreen's real name is Doug Schoen?
The former words don't sound like they came from a wise old man or a wise old woman.
"The American dream is largely broken if not irreversibly destroyed."
Seems like it's working out pretty good for the libs that get to wash down their brie with pinot grigio at some feel-good, phoney-baloney, goodtime Charlie, circle jerk at Aspen while the rest of us are working our butts off.
Aspen is rather like Baden-Baden in the 19th century where the cognoscenti waiting to have their necks stretched went to take the baths. Question: Can anyone tell me if the tiresome General Cohen of the Washington Post has visited Iraq lately? Or ever? I know he is a sometime visitor to Israel where he finds Israelis cowering in corners and visualizes the nation's doom.
What diverse commentary... from blithering idiots to Marxist-socialists. These are not ideas... these are frustrations.
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