[Troops put Rumsfeld in the hot seat, http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/12/08/rumsfeld.kuwait/index.html, 2006-04-07, 2004-12-08, CNN]
Responding to the question "Now why do we soldiers have to dig through local landfills for pieces of scrap metal and compromised ballistic glass to up armor our vehicles, and why don't we have those resources readily available to us?"
2000s
— Sam Manekshaw First Field marshal of the Indian Army 1914 - 2008
This was a reply he gave when Indira Gandhi called him to her chamber and confronted him with the question Are you trying to take over from me? [Jayakar, Pupul Jayakar, Indira Gandhi: A Biography, http://books.google.com/books?id=gm5JGkb2rhkC&pg=PA512, 27 November 1997, Penguin Books India, 978-0-14-011462-1, 215]
— Mikael Harutyunyan Armenian general 1946
Quoted in 2008 article. [about the death of soldiers, January 2008]
— Donald J. Trump 45th President of the United States of America 1946
Trump interrupting a reporter who started a question with "The first of the month is next week ... " White House coronavirus task force briefing (April 19, 2020), Donald Trump Coronavirus Press Conference Transcript April 19 https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/donald-trump-coronavirus-press-conference-transcript-april-19
2020s, 2020, April
„If you want to double your success rate, triple your failure rate.“
— Cory Doctorow, buch Pirate Cinema
Pirate Cinema
Variante: you want to double your success rate, triple your failure rate.
„If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.“
— Thomas Watson, Jr. American businessman and diplomat 1914 - 1993
— Liza Minnelli American actress and singer 1946
Liza Minelli, as quoted in "Liza Minelli 'Never Felt Better' Despite Tabloids' Whispers" https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=rmRGAAAAIBAJ&sjid=6ugMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3577%2C2269544 by Douglas J. Rowe, in TV Plus: The Schenectady Sunday Gazette Supplement (June 9, 1996), p. 4
Kontext: It really scared me to do what Mom did because I never did anything that she did. I promised her that I would never sing her songs, and I kept my promise. "You sing them better than anybody. I don't want to be a second-rate example of you. I want to be a first-rate example of myself."
— Leó Szilárd Physicist and biologist 1898 - 1964
As quoted in "Some Szilardisms on War, Fame, Peace", LIFE magazine, Vol. 51, no. 9 (1 September 1961), p. 79
— Doris Lessing, buch The Golden Notebook
Anna Wulf, in "Free Women: 2"<!-- 255 -->
Quelle: The Golden Notebook (1962)
Kontext: It seems to me like this. It's not a terrible thing — I mean, it may be terrible, but it's not damaging, it's not poisoning, to do without something one really wants. It's not bad to say: My work is not what I really want, I'm capable of doing something bigger. Or I'm a person who needs love, and I'm doing without it. What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is the first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.
— Frederick B. Maurice British Army general and historian 1871 - 1951
Speaking in Carnegie Hall, New York City, on 4 April 1919.
Kontext: As a soldier who has spent a quarter of his life in the study of the science of arms, let me tell you I went into the British Army believing that if you want peace you must prepare for war. I believe now that if you prepare thoroughly and efficiently for war, you get war.
„If you want to succeed, double your failure rate.“
— Tom Watson American businessman 1874 - 1956
Attributed to Watson in: Roger von Oech (1982), A Whack on the Side of the Head and Industrial participation (1987) Nr 594-603. p. 262.
— Rick Santorum American politician 1958
2012-03-20
Santorum: "I don't care" about unemployment rate
Sam
Jacobs
Chicago Tribune
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/sns-rt-us-usa-campaign-santorum-joblessbre82j0nb-20120320,0,7898443.story
2012-03-20
http://web.archive.org/web/20120322201518/http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/sns-rt-us-usa-campaign-santorum-joblessbre82j0nb-20120320,0,7898443.story
2012-03-22
— Liza Minnelli American actress and singer 1946
"[G]racefully handl[ing] audience demands for 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow,'" as quoted in "Coy Minnelli wows spirited audience; UM announces MCA construction" https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=LQY1AAAAIBAJ&sjid=QE8KAAAAIBAJ&pg=3215%2C676019 by Alicia Amstead, in The Bangor Daily News (September 18, 2006), p. A10
„You live and learn. At any rate, you live.“
— Douglas Adams, buch Mostly Harmless
Quelle: Mostly Harmless
„I'm glad whenever they cut interest rates, I wish interest rates were zero.“
— John McCain politician from the United States 1936 - 2018
Republican presidential debate http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21221689/ (9 October 2007)
2000s, 2007
„Q: “Professor Sargent, can you tell me what CD rates will be in two years?”“
— Thomas J. Sargent American economist 1943
Sargent: “No.”
Thomas J. Sargent in: Ally Bank TV Spot, 'Predictions' Featuring Thomas Sargent http://www.ispot.tv/ad/7Lj9/ally-bank-predictions-featuring-thomas-sargent.
„You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are.“
— Anna Quindlen journalist, Novelist 1952
Quelle: A Short Guide to a Happy Life
— Donald J. Trump 45th President of the United States of America 1946
2016, September 2016, First presidential debate (September 26, 2016)
— Frederick B. Maurice British Army general and historian 1871 - 1951
Speaking in Carnegie Hall, New York City, on 4 April 1919.
[New York Times, 5 April 1919, 13, Maurice Criticises Peace Conferees, http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9B00E6DC1E3BEE3ABC4D53DFB2668382609EDE]
