Source: The Sea of Monsters
“Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.”
“Democracy is sometimes messy, and for leaders, sometimes it's frustrating.”
2015, Remarks to the Kenyan People (July 2015)
Context: Democracy is sometimes messy, and for leaders, sometimes it's frustrating. Democracy means that somebody is always complaining about something. Nobody is ever happy in a democracy about their government. If you make one person happy, somebody else is unhappy. Then sometimes somebody who you made happy, later on, now they’re not happy. They say, what have you done for me lately? But that's the nature of democracy. That's why it works, is because it's constantly challenging leaders to up their game and to do better.
From the Congressional Record, H3706 [1996 April 23] http://frwebgate3.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/waisgate.cgi?WAISdocID=93746225856+0+0+0&WAISaction=retrieve.
1990s
Source: Through the Narrow Gate: A Memoir of Spiritual Discovery
“It's painful and it's messy. But sometimes you just have to make the break and start again.”
Source: Man and Wife
“The real world is muddy and messy and full of things that we do not yet understand.”
"Heretical Thoughts about Science and Society", in Edge (8 August 2007) http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge219.html#dysonf
Context: My first heresy says that all the fuss about global warming is grossly exaggerated. Here I am opposing the holy brotherhood of climate model experts and the crowd of deluded citizens who believe the numbers predicted by the computer models. Of course, they say, I have no degree in meteorology and I am therefore not qualified to speak. But I have studied the climate models and I know what they can do. The models solve the equations of fluid dynamics, and they do a very good job of describing the fluid motions of the atmosphere and the oceans. They do a very poor job of describing the clouds, the dust, the chemistry and the biology of fields and farms and forests. They do not begin to describe the real world that we live in. The real world is muddy and messy and full of things that we do not yet understand. It is much easier for a scientist to sit in an air-conditioned building and run computer models, than to put on winter clothes and measure what is really happening outside in the swamps and the clouds. That is why the climate model experts end up believing their own models.
US Senate hopeful Rand Paul visits Middlesboro
Lorie Settles
2010-01-26
Middlesboro Daily News
http://www.middlesborodailynews.com/view/full_story/5661743/article-US-Senate-hopeful-Rand-Paul-visits-Middlesboro
2010-11-17
Posed question: "What about instances of rape or incest or where the outcome may not be death, but severe medical problems for the mother or child. Do you think that in these cases the decision should be left to the government rather than the families?"
“I sometimes miss the anonymity and walking around without makeup on and having messy hair.”
The nerve-racking first meeting, Royalista
