Paul Jacob quotes

“Our current political system ensures not that the worst will get on top - though they often do - but that the best will never even apply.”
-- Paul Jacob

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“I agree with Thomas Jefferson, who once wrote that he would support the death penalty only when the infallibility of human judgment had been demonstrated.”
-- Paul Jacob

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“For all their talk about the virtues of democracy, many incumbent politicians really don't like it when voters have a voice-not if that voice is effective.”
-- Paul Jacob

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“I'm starting to like muggers more than congressmen. At least the muggers don't claim they're doing you a favor.”
-- Paul Jacob

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“'We the People' established the Constitution. Did we really do so to somehow keep ourselves out of the decision making. Are we only wise when it comes to electing people capable of governing our affairs, but wholly without the intellect to decide issues for ourselves?”
-- Paul Jacob

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“Anyone with a gun can go out and commit an act of terrorism, even without a political affiliation.”

“Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.”

“Our political problem now is "Can we, as a nation, continue together permanentlyforever--half slave, and half free?" The problem is too mighty for me. May God, in his mercy, superintend the solution.”

“It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.”

“There is no dispute that Albany needs to be changed. There is no dispute that the current situation in Albany is untenable. Nobody knows that better than I do.”

“One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems to come out of the experience of the author.”

“Mark my words, there will be a day that will come when you will all see many, many documents that will directly contradict IBM's current public posturing.”

“Well, football is a hard game; there's no denying it. It's a game that can bring out the worst in you, at times.”

“You have seen me at my worst and at my weakest. Let me show you my best.”

Source : Alison Goodman (2011). “Eona”, p.281, Penguin

“The worst food you'll ever eat will probably be prepared by a 'cook' who calls himself a 'chef.' Mark my words.”