Lobbyist

🇺🇸David Helvarg

Politics

b. 1951

"We tend to think of America's days of frontier exploration as being behind us, but that's because we tend not to think of the other 71% of our blue planet."

🇺🇸Fred Thompson

Politics

1942–2015

"Teaching Latin to someone like me in high school was somewhat like trying to teach a pig to dance. It's a waste of the teacher's time and it irritates the pig."

🇺🇸Ron Klain

Politics

b. 1961

"We’ve got to find a way to make the world work for everyone. Climate change is an issue that impacts that greatly by making it harder for people to live where they live, by causing disruptions, and lack of resources."

🇺🇸Karl Rove

Politics

b. 1950

"At the end of the day, it's of keen interest to me to see whether or not we can get Karl Rove frog-marched out of the White House in handcuffs. And trust me, when I use that name, I measure my words."

🇺🇸David Vitter

Politics

b. 1961

"It's obviously a tremendous loss for the state .... I think Livingston's stepping down makes a very powerful argument that Clinton should resign as well and move beyond this mess."

🇺🇸Herman Kahn

Science

1922–1983

"The final outcome of benevolent, informed, and intelligent decisions may turn out to be disastrous. But choices must be made; dies must be cast."

🇺🇸Ralph Nader

Politics

b. 1934

"Congress... has become a secret tyrannical bastion of Wall Street, and that outrages people..."

🇬🇧Benny Wenda

Social Activism

b. 1975

"If you fell the trees then you destroy human culture as well as the birds of paradise. People depend on the forest and the forest has always depended on us. We are as one."

"A group of Muslims gang raped a 14-year-old Hindu girl and berated her for being hindu. She at first said they "chased" her and on furhter questioning said they "caught her and did bad things to her."