Bases Quote by Daniel Patrick Moynihan

So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.

— Samuel Johnson

“This idea is fraught with peril, and I fear that my answers to your questions will be interpreted as approval rather than reluctant assistance.”

— Raymond Chen

“Many discussions are unclear when the intention is vague or hidden. People speak around and around an issue instead of coming to the point…

— Jackie Arnold

“at their disposal. So they assemble in protests to convey their objections. What’s wrong with that? A similar outpouring came recently from American Walter…

— Matthew Scully

So I think it's important to communicate with the people in terms of what the real facts are on these proposals and try to…

— John Podesta

“some current controversies are caused, or at least stoked, by a reluctance to abandon received ideas that may well have outlived their usefulness.”

— Ian Tattersall

We've seen in terms of the reaction to some proposals in the Budget already how resistant that public opinion is to, first of all,…

— Brian Cowen

I don't see how someone can complain about something when they're just as much of a contributor, if not more so to blame for…

— Anonymous

Merely complaining without proposing an alternative offers nothing.

— Jacque Fresco

When political and business leaders tell the public - any public - 'We don't trust you to make the right decision' - they prejudice…

— Preston Manning

To take an unequivocal stand, it seems to me, is of greater heuristic value and far more likely to stimulate constructive criticism than to…

— Ernst Mayr

Dissent is difficult. It can constitute a real dilemma for the person who disagrees.

— Richard N. Haass