Get Back In Your Bottle Genie!

"Government spending is like a jammed faucet. The ordinary citizen can't put the water back in the faucet, so he hurries with his tin cup."

Jenkins Lloyd Jones
Editor

On Wisconsin

"Wisconsin is a portly Teutonic old lady, full of beer and cheese, with a weakness for wild men and underdogs."

Mary McGrory
Columnist

The Difference Between Republicans & Democrats

"I began to notice that on all political problems, the Republicans had reasons not to act, while Democrats worked at solving the problems. It made a tremendous impression on me....Democrats came up with the answers, while Republicans always seemed to give explanations that nothing out to be done, and the system would take care of itself."

William Proxmire

Just Like Stray Cats...

"Honest workingmen are slow to accept charity, but when once their names are on the poor lists, they are equally slow to conclude, even after becoming more self-supporting, they can care for their families without assistance."

Milwaukee Sentinel
August 19, 1895

Udderly Wisconsin

"If it can be shown that Wisconsin is a happier state to live in, that is institutions are more democratic, that the opportunities of all its people are more equal, that social justice more than nearly prevails, that human life is safer and sweeter, then I shall rest content in the feeling that the Progressive movement has been successful."

Fighting Bob LaFollette (1912)

No Country For Middle Age Men

"...AIG is the poster corporation of the unrepentant as it is now enjoying a bailout of its bailout, having burnt through the first $80 billion in little more than a month.

Even among those inclined to turn a blind eye to corporate crimes, there was disgust when AIG executives went on a corporate retreat at a California oceanfront resort, where private rooms for pets with silver water bowls filled with “Dog Perginon” go for $545 a night. Former AIG chief Maurice Greenberg is still living the high life, putting his name on a $50 million endowment at Yale, with Henry Kissinger claiming that his losing his job has been punishment enough..."

by Margaret Carlson
from CEOs Give Thanks to Hank This Thanksgiving

What's In Your Cranium?