David's Quotes

"You can never understand one language until you understand at least two."

"The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes a wrong one. The more active and swift the latter is, the further he will go astray."

"This country will not be a permanently good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a reasonably good place for all of us to live in."

"I protect my right to be a Catholic by preserving your right to believe as a Jew, a Protestant, or non-believer, or as anything else you choose. We know that the price of seeking to force our beliefs on others is that they might some day force theirs on us."

"If you know only one language, you're a prisoner, stuck in the tyranny of that one language."

"The only gift is giving to the poor;
All else is exchange."

"There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers."

"I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace."

"So what?"

"Anyone with (Cynthia) Dunbar's animus toward public schools should never be in charge of them or have an important voice on what is in our students' textbooks. It's a travesty that the state's top officials aren't attacking the problems created by this dysfunctional board and demanding that Dunbar step down.