226 Quotes by Paul Johnson

I still have questions about the subject matter but it's more about the manner in which it was done. It was voted on after midnight without anyone (from the public) there, and it was the first time some of the board members saw it.

It does not always pay to have a golden tongue unless one has the ability to hold it

I've been having an affair, but I still believe in family values.

The Second World War took place not so much because no one won the First, but because the Versailles Treaty did not acknowledge this truth.

I think the stocks are going to do better, because everyone is going to realize it is not a disaster, and maybe the worst is behind us,

That's the thing with scheduling, you can't predict what teams are going to do from year to year, ... Right now, one of our team's goals is to make it to a bowl game, and that's a lot easier to do if you start 1-1 instead of 0-2.

The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions, which seem to us novel and plausible, have been tested before, not once but many times and in innumerable guises; and discovered to be, at great human cost, wholly false.

That's two weeks in a row we've been in a game at the end and they made more plays that we did, ... We didn't get it done at the end. We need to find a way to win.

The idea that human beings have changed and are changing the basic climate system of the Earth through their industrial activities and burning of fossil fuels - the essence of the Greens' theory of global warming - has about as much basis in science as Marxism and Freudianism.