Born on February 25th
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Quotes by Authors Born Today (167)
"The newly released movie 'Noah' features a retelling of the creation story that clearly depicts Darwinian evolution transforming a single-cell organism into a monkey. The movie also seems to show magic in scenes more reminiscent of the occult than of the Bible story."
— Aaron Klein"When Obama was first proposed as a presidential candidate in 2007, the nation failed to have a meaningful debate concerning the serious constitutional issue of electing someone whose father was not a U.S. citizen."
— Aaron Klein"The official Hamas charter calls for the murder of Jews and destruction of the Jewish state."
— Aaron Klein"I have been under assault by the liberal media in the United States."
— Aaron Klein"Just for the record, I personally do agree with some of the sentiments of Rabbi Meir Kahane. I think he was right about certain things, wrong about other things, but I have absolutely nothing, no association whatsoever with Kahane Chai leaders."
— Aaron Klein"Democrats have a long history of utilizing the threat of a potential Ebola outbreak to request massive federal funds while attacking Republicans for expressing skepticism over their funding schemes."
— Aaron Klein"In committing an estimated 3,000 U.S. forces to join international Ebola relief efforts in West Africa, President Obama seems to be fulfilling the plans of highly influential progressive groups who seek to transform the American military into more of a social-work organization."
— Aaron Klein"Obama repeatedly has condemned Hamas as a terrorist organization that should be isolated until it renounces violence and recognizes Israel."
— Aaron Klein"The Obama administration has issued numerous orders essentially suspending deportations, prompting a major spike in illegal crossings."
— Aaron Klein"Lost in much of the national debate about immigration reform is how Democrats ultimately stand to gain electorally with any legislation or executive action that would put the newly legalized residents on a path to voting."
— Aaron Klein"Widely distributed reports have noted in January 1968, Obama was registered as a Muslim at Jakarta's Roman Catholic Franciscus Assisi Primary School under the name Barry Soetoro."
— Aaron Klein"Catholic schools in Indonesia routinely accept non-Catholic students, but exempt them from studying religion. Obama's school documents, though, wrongly list him as being Indonesian."
— Aaron Klein"If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that could conceivably collapse the whole system."
— Carl Safina"Many people believe the whole catastrophe is the oil we spill, but that gets diluted and eventually disarmed over time. In fact, the oil we don't spill, the oil we collect, refine and use, produces CO2 and other gases that don't get diluted."
— Carl Safina"Why would even I say we can't stop drilling in the Gulf? Because we have no alternatives. Whether or not we drill in the Gulf, or in Alaska, we will continue to wring the last out of anyplace else."
— Carl Safina"BP had a lease to drill. They did not have a lease to pollute the Gulf of Mexico. They did not have a lease to blow oil into the environment. They did not have a lease to disperse the oil and try to hide the body. They don't have a lease to clean up."
— Carl Safina"As a teenage fisherman, I watched and followed terns to find fish. Later, I studied terns for my Ph.D."
— Carl Safina"Several groups have information evaluating seafood sustainability. I wrote the first such guide, and seafood pocket-guides and detailed evaluations of different seafoods are available for download from the group I founded, Blue Ocean Institute."
— Carl Safina"If you want to make change, 'Show me how' can be a stronger, more effective approach than 'Just say no.' That's what I think."
— Carl Safina"If you ask the fish whether they'd rather have an oil spill or a season of fishing, I wouldn't be surprised if they'd vote for another blowout."
— Carl Safina"We have come to the edge of the abyss and now it is time for a bold step forward. There is a political view that the tougher you are, the more credible you are."
— Ed Balls"I think three or four years ago, people would have said my biggest weakness was that sometimes I was awkward on television, with my stammer, but I think they'd say that much less now."
— Ed Balls"I would love to go on 'MasterChef'. But while I really like cooking, I'm doubtful anyone would ever want to pay for what I'd cooked."
— Ed Balls"My mobile phone battery runs out all the time because all the messages come straight to me."
— Ed Balls"You could get a cheer by saying: 'Let's withdraw from Afghanistan', but I don't think that's where the public's at. It wouldn't be responsible."
— Ed Balls"Saddam Hussein was a horrible man, and I am pleased he is no longer running Iraq. But the war was wrong."
— Ed Balls"I set myself one task, which was to get Labour on to the front foot, back in the game, making the weather on the economy, and that's going to take me a year."
— Ed Balls"I'm a very loyal person and I allowed myself to be defined as somebody who was doing Gordon's bidding. I should have fought back harder to define myself at an earlier stage."
— Ed Balls"In 1925, when Britain went back to the gold standard, that was supported by the Conservative Party, the Labour Party, the Bank of England, the civil service, the CBI, the TUC, the Times, the Economist; that consensus was very strong."
— Ed Balls