22 Quotes by Michael Quinn

We believe that by restoring the house, Madison will no longer be an overlooked founding father. He is the genius who is responsible for the success for our nation's Constitution. He was the principle creative genius for this.

Three terms are up and Gary and Greg won?t be running so I thought it made sense to stay on. It?s been a great experience and I have enjoyed it.

There are times where you have an unconscious (person), and we don't know if it's stroke-related, if it's cardiac-related or if it's any medical condition, ... It's hard to figure out what the prognosis is.

Because of the situation that we are in, everything we've done in the past several years will be called into question. We have to look at what we are trying to do here.

Humans have always had a complex relationship with technology. Automobiles, for instance, changed the nature of life in America, where we live, how we work, what we can do with our leisure time. But they have also brought us traffic jams and contributed to global warming. The impact of information technology may be equally profound, and these are things we need to think about and study.

I went to a Jesuit school as an undergraduate, and that helped me gain a deep appreciation for philosophy. The general mentality of most engineers is that if we can invent something, we should. It's not that simple. At Heathrow airport they are debating the use of new X-ray technology that electronically disrobes a person and shows their naked image. Government power is something that's easy to abuse, and many people are raising questions about invasion of privacy.

We need a lot more education for our dollar long before we start talking about giving these people more money,

The problem is, when we need it, we need it now.

We're not trying to tell students what they should think or what the right answers are, because many of these topics are very complex, they change rapidly and do not offer easy solutions. But we do hope people who take courses such as this will grow a little, mature their judgments and reflect more carefully on some important issues.