Quotes About Comparison

Lord, the money we do spend on Government and it's not one bit better than the government we got for one-third the money twenty years ago.

Philanthropy, although it's tiny compared to the government, it's 2% of the US economy, which is the largest percentage, other than the Middle East.

How pale is the art of sorcerers, witches, and conjurors when compared with that of the government's Treasury Department!

Can you think of a single area of government in which George Bush hasn't already made things worse than Bill Clinton did?

In government procurement, for example, the opportunity German firms have in the United States is 10 times larger than in Canada.

[Madame Nhu was] the Sandra Dee of South Vietnam. If I were cast on a desert island with her, I would quickly make friends with the natives.

I think most of [people] are not very well educated themselves to understand the Winston Churchill line - democracy is the worst of all governments until you consider all the other ones.

Millions who endure poverty and bad government can now know what they are missing. To see how the other half lives all they have to do is switch on their television sets.

Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.

So, what's it like in the real world? Well, the food is better, but beyond that, I don't recommend it.

First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.

The Americans expect great things of me ... If the small Czech nation can have such musicians, they say, why could not they, too, when their country and people is so immense.

By definition, it is not possible to everyone to be above the average.

Good-to-great companies set their goals and strategies based on understanding; comparison companies set their goals and strategies based on bravado.

Decaf is like masturbating with an oven mitt!

Although I get so much fan mail from Great Britain, tell me, am I more famous there than Michael Madsen?

I can't change overnight into a serious literary author. You can't compare apples to oranges. William Faulkner was a great literary genius. I am not.

You've got to be in a bad relationship to really understand what a great one is.

A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.

What is great now is not even close to what Jimmy Hendrix was. We need to reevaluate the standards of what's [labeled] great music.

I look at Jessica Alba and think she's got a great body. I think that's what women are supposed to look like.

My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.

I'm not a stand up at all, it's such a fear of mine. My sister does it, and she's really great at it.

[Abbas Kiarostami] is a great artist and a poet. I sometimes think that if Samuel Beckett made films, he'd make them like Kiarostami makes them.