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- The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you ask them a real tax question, such as how you can cheat, they're useless. So, for guidance, you want to look to big business. Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes...
- Dave Barry (1947 - ), "Sweating Out Taxes"
- We have to remember that what we observe is not nature in itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning.
- Werner Heisenberg
- In one celebrated incident, 300 members of Church of the New Song requested $6000 worth of filet mignon and Harvey's Bristol Cream for a crucial religious ceremony at the federal prison in Atlanta.
- Legal Times, 2/15/93
- Why yes - a bulletproof vest.
- James Rodges, a murderer, on his final request before the firing squad
- The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices -- to be found in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own -- for the children and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone.
- Rod Serling (1924 - 1975)
- I'm out of ammunition on this.
- James Stockdale, during 1992 Vice Presidential debate, concluding his answer to a question about health policy
- The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.
- Claude Levi-Strauss
- If Jerry Brown is the answer, it must be a very peculiar question.
- Sen Lloyd Bentsen, D-Texas
- A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp.
- Joan Rivers (1935 - )
- What's the difference between a Dice Clay concert and a Klan rally? Nothing. Trick question.
- Bob Goldthwait
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