P.S. Bartlett Quotes

Pension reforms, like investment advice and automatic enrollment, will strengthen the ability of Americans to save and invest for retirement.

Jesus loves me, this I know.

The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.

An antique is anything old with class.

Infatuation is the language of a beautiful eye upon a sensitive heart.

Just be wrong. Just stand there in your wrongness and be wrong, and get used to it.

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.

Of all the vices incident to man, lying is the most mean, most contemptible; it evinces a very weak, depraved heart, which shrinks at the exposure of motives and of actions.

Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.

[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.

No one man is superior to the game.

Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.

When a pagan race comes in contact with a Christian race, they are converted, absorbed, or exterminated.

Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.

For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.

Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.

Firstly I commit my Soul into the hands of God, its great and benevolent author.

Al Gore may think Medicare is at a crossroads, but his plan puts it on a highway to bankruptcy.

Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.

To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.

The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.

People are increasingly concerned about unemployment, but Republicans have nothing to offer them.

You meet new people. We just spent two hours with people we didn't know before, just talking about the Badgers.

There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.

We need to have a culture that says 'the less energy you can use to be comfortable, the better off you are and the better you should feel about yourself'.

It is not enough to offer a smorgasbord of courses. We must insure that students are not just eating at one end of the table.

This filing spike is a result of bad information being pushed on people, and then they file for bankruptcy out of fear.

I believe any decline would lock in a Fed increase with some certainty.

Being offended is a choice. I believe that. You don't have - you don't hear a word and you have to be offended.

Rick Perry's an idiot, and I don't think anyone would disagree with that.

The worst thing that we could do is raises taxes. It would only hurt the economy.

Writing is my refuge. It's where I go. It's where I find that integrity I have.

The first law of sustainability: population growth and/or growth in the rate of consumption of resources cannot be sustained

On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.

Can you think of anything that can get better if we crowd more people into our cities, our towns, into our state our nation or on this earth?

A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.

You count on it, you rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then, just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.

Modern agriculture is the use of land to convert petroleum into food.

I will fight for budget honesty and eliminating the deficit to reduce the transfer of debt to younger generations.

People who have not tried, know so much about gardening! - and so little.

Baseball is part of America's plot, part of America's mysterious, underlying design-the plot in which we all conspire and collude, the plot of the story of our national life.

All art points to others with whom the writer argues about what is . . . He must have models with which to agree . . . or outright oppose . . . for Nature seems to remain silence.

With all due respect to Speaker Hastert, trying to eliminate the IRS by adopting a national retail sales tax is a very dumb idea.

There's bound to be a recovery in [capital spending] sometime soon. We have had basically no capital investment for about year. At some point, machinery wears out, and you've got to replace it.

So I think we shouldn't be overly concerned about the decline in personal saving at this particular moment and time, but it's something we certainly need to keep an eye on.

The professionals must set a good example.

Democrats will play the old Washington game of calling reductions in the rate of growth of spending for any program a 'cut'.

My writing is a lens into the possibilities of the American experience.

I found my way to make my peace with the recent past by turning it into WORD.

The break for me was the Medicare drug benefit in 2003. It's just grossly expensive, bad policy. After that, I no longer gave them the benefit of the doubt and started seeing the glass as half-empty.