Nov 10, 2008 12:11
These are quotes I found in Time that I liked
"The system was designed for plain vanilla loans, and we were trying to push chocolate sundaes through the gears."
- Marc Gott Former director in Fannie Mae's loan-servicing department, explaining the company's collapse.
"I myself am not that happy. It's a noisy celebration."
- Toshihide Maskawa Japanese scientist, on winning the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics
"It always comes down to a knife fight in a telephone booth."
- Chris Lehane Democratic political consultant, on the inevitability of negative attacks at the end of presidential campaigns
" It's Alaska. It's just right over the border."
-Sarah Palin
"Other countries have the Mafia. In Bulgaria, the Mafia has the country."
-Atanas Atanasov a member of parliament, on the nation's history of political corruption and violence.
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