"Nobody talks more of free enterprise and competition and of the best man winning than the man who inherited father's store or farm." - C. Wright Mills

"Other than telling us how to live, think, marry, pray, vote, invest, educate our children and, now, die, I think the Republicans have done a fine job of getting government out of our personal lives."- Sunday Portland Oregonian

"How many turning points does it take before it becomes clear you're trapped in a maze?" - James Wolcott on the War in Iraq

"The plural of anecdote is not data." - Frank Kotsonis

"If you torture data sufficiently, it will confess to almost anything." - Fred Menger

"Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please." - Mark Twain (or the SOP for Fox News)

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." - Upton Sinclair

"The biggest cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid people are so sure about things and the intelligent folks are so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell