Word Up

“My job is putting human beings in spacecraft to go to space. I don’t see a lot of prospects for doing that somewhere else.” Travis Thompson, whose job as lead technician at NASA ended with the last shuttle trip by Atlantis last week.

“I’m telling you something you’re all unaware of.” Ann “Isn’t She Charming” Coulter

“I do think there’s more of a tendency to pull together [as Congress in support of the President] when…the guy in the White House is on your side.” Mitch McConnell (R-KY)

“…but there’s a misunderstanding that if you just go to the ER that’s health care. It’s not…and I don’t think the politicians really understand that.” David Ansel

“Until last year Social Security took in more payroll taxes than it paid out in benefits. It lent the surpluses to the rest of the government. Now that Social Security has started to pay out more than it takes in, Social Security can simply collect the rest of what the government owes it. This will keep it fully solvent for the next 26 years.” Robert Reich

“When we were having this explosion of our chemical revolution, we didn’t have any way of knowing the subtle impacts on cellular function. We thought ‘if it doesn’t kill you, it’s probably okay.’” Dr. Martha Herbert

“Nothing you desire can compare with her [Wisdom]…her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.” Proverbs 3:13-18

“If a man extols his own faith and disparages another because of devotion to his own and because he wants to glorify it, he seriously injures his own faith.” Ashoka

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