Robert F. Drinan Quotes

You know, 'Professor Obama' has been a label applied to him by Republicans and Democrats alike. He's a very smart guy. But I think he'd be, you know, better served not to spend so much time trying to impress us with his particular position on an issue and understand that there are things upon which we simply have a disagreement.

I've always thought Anne-Marie Slaughter would make a fantastic United States Senator or something. She's a real intellectual, but she's got enormous communicative skills and she's got government experience. The thing that drives me slightly crazy is the way we think about intellectuals as wooly, hopeless, arrogant, self-deceived, incapable.

If you criticise something then you have to have an alternative, but we do have to try and improve things.

The first complete sentence out of my mouth was probably that line about consistency being the hobgoblin of small minds.

What is wrong with George Bush? What is his problem?

Maummar Qaddafi. He is clinically stupid.

Governor Blanco is like Packman without the looks.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan [is] easily the most original thinker in the Senate.

He [Aneurin Bevan] will be as great a curse to this country in peace as he was a squalid nuisance in time of war.

He [Gerald Ford] has a slow mind, but he has backbone.

[Referring to Herbert Hoover:] That man has offered me unsolicited advice for six years—all of it bad.

He [Gerald R. Ford] played too much football with his helmet off.

After all, Franklin [Delano Roosevelt] isn't very bright.

George W. Bush has a heart of stone.

There is no inherent contradiction between being right-wing and being intelligent.

Liberalism has become a special kind of stupid.

I can't think of a single area where [Barack] Obama is not destructive.

If the answer is more politicians, you are asking the wrong question.

[Barack Obama] is a man who is causing us and will cause us a great deal of harm constitutionally and personally.

Whatever the faults of the rabbis, consistency was not one of them.

Mathematicians have a certain type of mind, and climbers have a certain type of mind, because climbing poses these incredibly interesting problems for them.

This is a very sick man, this Obama.

Often President Obama's worst critics are Senator Obama and candidate Obama.

Rick Scott used let's get to work to say: All these politicians talk; it's time to do. Everybody else talks about the problem; it's time to find the solution.

My friends tell me that I have a tendency to point out problems without offering solutions, but they never tell me what I should do about it.