Society

"The Supreme Court doesn't need to be reasonable,
It only has to be constitutional."
- Jennifer Newman-Bigioni

"They say two wrongs don't make it right,
But it damn sure make it even."
- Sister Souljah

Question: "Should we make Dan Quayle President?"
Chris Novoselic: "Sure. The whole thing's a joke anyway."

"If they talk about diversity, they're gonna get it.
If they talk about tolerance, they better be ready to have it."
- Brigit Kerrigan

"School's important, but so's money. Homework doesn't pay.
Teachers say education is your payment, and that just makes me want to puke."
- Vanessa Thompson

"Boomers are finally growing up, and we don't hold it against them that
they forced so many of us to beat them to it."
- Kate Fillion

"Our answer to the famous question,
'What do you want to be when you grow up?' is 'Employed.'"
- Joanne Gordan

"The fact that my cronies and I haven't incited riots,
checked out on hallucinogenic substances and bashed and trashed
the previous generation does not mean I have no joie de vivre."
- Jill Strass

"Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa Claus what they want and adults pay for it.
Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want and their kids pay for it."
- Richard Lamm

"I feel more than a trace of bitterness listening to [Boomers] with the
same education as me complaining that they won't be able to install
their home theater- while I'm refilling their iced tea."
- Generation X-er

"So what you're say is that if I bought a car, there would be nuclear war!"
- Dennis Clark, discussing economic stability

"Any sufficiently advanced political correctness is indistinguishable from irony."
- Erik Naggum

"The British think 200 miles is a long way;
Americans think 200 years is a long time."

"Diplomacy is the art of saying 'nice doggy' until you can find a rock."

The graduate with a Science degree asks "Why does it work?"
The graduate with an Engineering degree asks "How does it work?"
The graduate with an Accounting degree asks "How much will it cost?"
The graduate with a Liberal Arts degree asks "Do you want fries with that?"

"The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun."
- Buckminster Fuller

"Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think."

"We are a nation of laws, poorly written and randomly enforced."
- Frank Zappa

"Lawyers are killing society, perhaps we should return the favour."

"The population rises exponentially, the number of clues rises geometrically,
and the number of clueful rises arithmetically. This is why the world has problems."
- Alistair J. R. Young on ASR.

"Some drink from the Fountain of Knowledge...
Others just gargle.
And some pee in it."