Quotes of: John Keyword

The relationship I have to my fatherland is like that of mothers with crippled children: they love them all the more, the more crippled they are. Germany is the background of all my plans, the return to Germany.

Friedrich List

In a man-to-man fight, the winner is he who has one more round in his magazine.

Erwin Rommel

If we need simple narratives so people can amplify and spread them, are we forced to engage only with the simplest of problems?

Ethan Zuckerman

Re-tweeting is a pretty common practice on Twitter, but on an average day, we see maybe one out of 20 posts is a re-tweet.

Ethan Zuckerman

Reddit names are unconnected to real-world identities and it's commonplace for users to create 'throwaway' accounts to reveal sensitive information.

Ethan Zuckerman

You can make the case that slacktivism is important because it makes people feel affiliated to a movement and be part of it, and talk about it.

Ethan Zuckerman

The Internet challenges traditional ways of distributing and processing information and so encourages new standards and behavior.

Ethan Zuckerman

When I was growing up in the U.S. in the 1970s, 35-40% of an average nightly newscast focused on international stories.

Ethan Zuckerman

I carry my roots with me all the time rolled up, I use them as my pilllow.

Francisco X. Alarcón

Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn't even get out of committee.

F. Lee Bailey

Give me a lead of 14-0 at halftime and I will dictate the final score.

Frank Leahy

The concentration and reciprocal effect of industry and agriculture conjoin in a growth of productive powers, which increases more in geometrical than in arithmetical proportion.

Friedrich List

I do not believe I could have built FedEx without the skills I learned from the Marine Corps.

Frederick W. Smith

Personally, I regard myself as an intellectual 'rebel,' kicking against the 'old colonialism-imperialism paradigm' which has landed Africa in a conundrum.

George Ayittey

I would rather have a good education and no money, than to have a fortune and be ignorant.

George Armstrong Custer

You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.

Charles de Gaulle

A ship is always referred to as 'she' because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder.

Chester W. Nimitz

The reason we call ships "she" is that it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder.

Chester W. Nimitz

I think something that forces financial institutions to write down underwater mortgages, I think, would be a sensible thing to do.

Christina Romer

You care about the deficit because it allows you to do things you need to do to help people who are suffering.

Christina Romer

Economic conservatives like immigration reform, and in fact, many of them supported the bill that John McCain and I put together in the Senate.

Chuck Schumer