Quotes."Like bodybuilders, the environmentalists were thought of as kind of weird fanatics also. You know ... serious tree huggers. Environmentalists were no fun. They were like prohibitionists at the fraternity party." --California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger (German pronunciation (IPA): [ˈaɐ̯nɔlt ˈaloɪ̯s ˈʃvaɐ̯ʦənˌʔɛɡɐ] , speaking at Georgetown University Georgetown University, in the Georgetown section of Washington, D.C.; Jesuit; coeducational; founded 1789 by John Carroll, chartered 1815, inc. 1844. Its law and medical schools are noteworthy, and its archives are especially rich in letters and manuscripts by and , April 11 "We will attack the Playboy office and sweep up Verb 1. sweep up - force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action; "They were swept up by the events"; "don't drag me into this business" drag in, embroil, tangle, drag, sweep copies of the magazine, which will destroy the morals of Indonesian children." --Irwan Asidi, leader of the Islamic Defenders Front, on a court decision allowing continued publication of Indonesian Playboy, quoted in The Sydney Morning Herald, April 5 "For 40 years, I taught legal and constitutional history. I'm glad I'm no longer teaching. If I had to give one of those lectures today, I'd have to tell my students, 'This is all now bullshit.'" --legal historian Stanley I. Kutler on the controversial firing of eight U.S. attorneys, quoted in The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Observer, April 2 "The zoo must kill the bear. Feeding by hand is not species-appropriate, but a gross violation of animal protection laws." --German animal rights activist Frank Albrecht, discussing the fate of Knut, an abandoned polar bear polar bear, large white bear, Ursus maritimus, formerly Thalarctos maritimus, of the coasts of arctic North America. Polar bears usually live on drifting pack ice, but sometimes wander long distances inland. cub being raised by staff at the Berlin Zoo, quoted in Bild, March 20 |
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