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Donald J. Carty quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“The tolerance of the public is diminishing. We're spending time on the wrong people. It's nutty. There has to be a better way. Why are we stripsearching Aunt Molly from Iowa and letting on Richard Reid?”
-- Donald J. Carty

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“There really isn't any limit to the number of people who want a piece of you, and it's all important stuff.”
-- Donald J. Carty

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“The greatest sin of airline management of the last 22 years is to say, "It's all labor's fault."”
-- Donald J. Carty

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“I've got an uncle myself. Nobody should be held responsible for their uncles. Nature's little throwbacks - that's how I look at it.”
“Donâ€™t mind me,â€ I said. â€œIâ€™m just the person who tried to rob the place last July.â€ â€œNo, you diddnâ€™t,â€ Abby said, appearing on the roof. She was wearing a trim suit and tall black boots. Her hair was pulled into a sleek ponytail at the nape of her neck, and either i was imagining things or Townsend wasnâ€™t quite as good a spy as I thought, because I could have sworn I saw him drool a little. Note to self: your aunt is a hottie.”
“[The woman] paused and seemed to take a deep breath. 'You see,' she declared. 'I am Tom Mallow's aunt.' Catherine's first instinct was to burst out laughing. She wondered why there was something slightly absurd about aunts; perhaps it was because one thought of them as dear, comfortable creatures, somehow lacking in dignity and prestige.”

Source : Barbara Pym (1982). “Less than angels”, HarperCollins Publishers
“I wanted to say to Governor Dean, don't be hard on yourself about hooting and hollering. If I had spent the money you did and got 18 percent, I'd still be in Iowa hooting and hollering.”
“You see for me, America is an idea. It is a stage for transformation. I felt when I came to Iowa City from Calcutta that suddenly I could be a new person . . . What America offers me is romanticism and hope . . . Suddenly, I found myself in a country where”
“When I left Iowa, I definitely never wanted to stand in front of a group of academics again and see if they approved of me. I made up my mind to take my work to the actual reading public.”
“In 1988, as an unknown candidate, totally unknown, I won Iowa, came in second in New Hampshire, won South Dakota. I was ahead in every Super Tuesday state the day after South Dakota. The only problem was I didn't have enough money. I had a million dollars left, and Al Gore had three and Michael Dukakis had three and it was lights out.”
“Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.”
“We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.”
“Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.”

Donald J. Carty quotes

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