“I can tell the difference between senseless terror and justifiable rebellion.”
Ayad Allawi (1945) Iraqi politician
Said to United States President Barack Obama after being told that Obama had met with the Chinese and Russian ambassadors along with David Cameron, "Prince Philip makes a faux pas" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXKMIDbUbQ8 at Youtube (1 April 2009) <br class="br">2000s
“I can tell the difference between senseless terror and justifiable rebellion.”
Ayad Allawi (1945) Iraqi politician
“[A] fellow from Texas can tell the difference between grass-roots and AstroTurf.”
Lloyd Bentsen (1921–2006) American politician
Apparent 1985 coining of the term astroturfing, meaning "creating or operating fake 'grass-roots' campaigns"
Cited in [Young, Henry, 2 November 2009, Astroturf Lobbying Organizations: Do Fake Grassroots Need Real Regulation, Illinois Business Law Journal, http://www.law.uiuc.edu/bljournal/post/2009/11/02/Astroturf-Lobbying-Organizations-Do-Fake-Grassroots-Need-Real-Regulation.aspx, 2010-03-27]
Larry the Cable Guy (1963) American stand-up comedian, actor, country music artist, voice artist
Morning Constitutions (2007)
Al Franken (1951) American comedian and politician
Lies: And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them (2003)
Context: If you listen to a lot of conservatives, they'll tell you that the difference between them and us is that conservatives love America and liberals hate America.... They don't get it. We love America just as much as they do. But in a different way. You see, they love America like a 4-year-old loves his mommy. Liberals love America like grown-ups. To a 4-year-old, everything Mommy does is wonderful and anyone who criticizes Mommy is bad. Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow. Love takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world.
That's why we liberals want America to do the right thing. We know America is the hope of the world, and we love it and want it to do well.
Charles Stross The Laundry Files
Source: The Laundry Files, The Labyrinth Index (2018), Chapter 11, “A Dead God Did It and Ran Away” (p. 321)
“When a thing gets very, very small, you can't tell the difference between a solid and a liquid.”
Robert B. Laughlin (1950) American physicist
16:30 in video
SETI Talk 2013