No Enemies, No Hate: Selected Essays and Poems
“A fair body of scholarship has come to challenge the view that elected officials reign supreme.”
John W. Kingdon (1940) American political scientist
Source: Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies - (Second Edition), Chapter 2, Participants on the Inside of Government, p. 43
Pierre Charles Alexandre Louis (1787–1872) French physician
Letter to Jean Cruveilhier (1837), as quoted by William Coleman, Death is a Social Disease: Public Health and Political Economy in Early Industrial France (1982)
“In this universe, experience counts.”
John Scalzi (1969) American science fiction writer
Source: Old Man’s War (2005), Chapter 8 (p. 142)
Elizabeth I of England (1533–1603) Queen regnant of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until 1603
The Golden Speech (1601)
Carl Rowan (1925–2000) American journalist
Carl Rowan, Inside Washington (March 20, 1993).
Quoington Star article entitled "Has President Nixon Gone Crazy?"
“We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Old Age
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Helmut Schmidt (1918–2015) Chancellor of West Germany 1974-1982
Zeit Online http://www.zeit.de/online/2008/30/schmidt-atomausstieg-spd, 23. July 2008
“It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.”
Henry Kissinger (1923–2023) United States Secretary of State
Luigi Russolo (1885–1947) Electronic music pioneer and Futurist painter
Source: 1910's, The Art of Noise', 1913, p. 4
