Statistics

Former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill once offered a bit of advice to a youngster whose
ambitions included a seat in Parliament. "The first lesson that you must learn," he told the chap, "is
[that] when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer
babies died when I was prime minister than when anyone else was prime minister. That is a political
statistic."
-Government by the Numbers: Reliable or Not? (K. Daniel Glover, Intellectual Capital)

Elections

“We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.” --Aesop (~550 BC)

Argentina

“donde acaba la razón, empieza la Argentina”

War is a crime

Ernest Hemingway’s dictum: "Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime."

The meaning of liberty of expression

George Orwell wrote, "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."

Forecasting

"We have 2 classes of forecasters: Those who don’t know… and those who don’t know they don’t know.” — John Kenneth Galbraith

Sequence

"Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give." —William A. Ward