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- Women constitute half the world's population, perform nearly two-thirds of its work hours, receive one-tenth of the world's income and own less than one-hundredth of the world's property.
- United Nations report, 1980
- I love the women's movement...especially when I'm walking behind it.
- Rush Limbaugh
- Basically a dog person. I certainly, though, wouldn't want to offend my constituents who are cat people, and I should say that being, I hope, a sensitive person, that I have nothing against cats, and had cats when I was a boy, and if we didn't have the two dogs might very well be interested in having a cat now.
- Incoming Missouri Congressman James Talent, responding to the question "Are you a dog or a cat person?"
- In Washington, it's dog eat dog. In academia, it's exactly the opposite.
- Robert Reich, the Secretary of Labor
- A woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hinder legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- The purpose of a liberal arts education is to learn that a person can like both cats *and* dogs!
- Sonjay Anand
- Any member introducing a dog into the Society's premises shall be liable to a fine of one pound. Any animal leading a blind person shall be deemed to be a cat.
- Rule 46, Oxford Union Society, London
- Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement.
- Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000), (Snoopy)
- Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes.
- Murray Edelman, _Politics as Symbolic Action_, p. 1
- No one who has read official documents needs to be told how easy it is to conceal the essential truth under the apparently candid and all- disclosing phrases of a voluminous and particularizing report....
- Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924), _Congressional Government_, p. 109
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