“And I want to congratulate you Brian on your great common sense and decency with which you put your case and I do hope that it is not the end of our discussions about the police.”
2000s, 2008, First Speech As London Mayor (May 3, 2008)
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Jimmy Carter (1924) American politician, 39th president of the United States (in office from 1977 to 1981)
Post-Presidency, DNC address (2004)
Context: I am not discouraged. I really am not. I do not despair for our country. I never do. I believe tonight, as I always have, that the essential decency and compassion and common sense of the American people will prevail.
And so I say to you and to others around the world, whether they wish us well or ill: Do not underestimate us Americans.
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Einstein's letter http://www.teslasociety.com/einsteinletter.jpg to Nikola Tesla for Tesla's 75th birthday (1931) <br class="br">1930s
“I’m going. But before I do, let me congratulate all of you on your stupidity. (Fury)”
Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist
Source: Dead After Dark
Greta Thunberg book No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
2019, World Economic Forum (January 2019) <br class="br">Source: Greta Thunberg, 16, urges leaders to act on climate, The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/25/our-house-is-on-fire-greta-thunberg16-urges-leaders-to-act-on-climate (25 January 2019)<br>Cited in ', Penguin Books, 2019, pages 19-24 (ISBN 9780141991740).
H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer
As quoted in LIFE magazine, Vol. 21, No. 6, (5 August 1946), p. 52 http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=3UwEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PP1&client=safari&pg=PA52#v=onepage&q&f=false; this has also been paraphrased as "It is inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office." <br class="br">1940s–present <br class="br">Context: In the present case it is a little inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible to any public office of trust or profit in the Republic. But I do not repine, for I am a subject of it only by force of arms.
“Do you want to tell me what this is about, or should I just call the police?”
Cassandra Clare The Mortal Instruments
"And tell them what?" Jace said witheringly. "That invisible people are bothering you? Trust me, little girl, the police aren't going to arrest someone they can't see."
Clary and Jace, pg. 44
The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)
James A. Garfield (1831–1881) American politician, 20th President of the United States (in office in 1881)
1870s, Speech (1879)