Ian Fleming Quotes
She explained to me later that she must have been possessed by a subconscious desire to be raped. Well she found me in the mountains and she was raped - by me.
Fleming, Ian. From Russia, with Love. Jonathan Cape, 1957.
Goodman is citing the 2003 poll conducted by the pro-choice Center for the Advancement of Women, who found that the majority of women believe abortion should be legal only in three cases -- rape, incest, or danger to the life of the mother.
Mourdock, defeated Richard Lugar in the Republican Senatorial Primary election. Lugar, one of the most respected and effective Senators was a statesman who worked with any and all to find effective compromises to reach national solutions. The nation was so politically polarized that the Republican Indiana voters ousted one of their most senior senators because he was effective at developing national For most Indiana voters the thought of electing a man who believed that rapes were the will of God.was too much. See {626717} and {626716} for other Mourdock’s outrageous comments. While this rhetoric won in the Primary, it lost him the general election in a state where Republicans had a strong majority and should have had the seat. Mourdock had intended to reiterate his opposition to abortion even in instances of rape. However, his ideology and religious fundamentalism got the better of him and he alienated not only the people who favored woman’s choice but many abortion opponents as well.
At the beginning of World War II the President called business and union leaders to the White House for a conference on labor management relations for the war effort. There was agreement on some issues but acrimony on others—especially the concept of a union shop. President Roosevelt congratulated the conferees on their agreements, ignored their disagreements, and told the press things had been settled:
The Armed Services had then a terrible problem of sexual assault on female troops with an attitude on the part of many officers and commanders that would tolerate these assaults and not treat them seriously. The situation was so bad the the General repeated that he was not kidding about the major priority in that he realized a large number of senior officers would find it surprising the the Chief of Staff would make the issue the number one army priority.
This quote illustrates how ignorant some members of Congress are about basic science and human reproduction. There is absolutely no physiology whereby the trauma of rape can cause a contraceptive effect. Akin was in the midst of a Senate race, and his opponents and the press pilloried him for his ignorance. The previous year there were about 32,000 pregnancies resulting from rape in the United S tates. Worse for Akin, his use of “legitimate rape” got him into trouble with the voters also. His implication that there were some rapes that were NOT legitimate infuriated many voters. He lost the election in a state where the Republicans were predicted to win.
Ian Lancaster Fleming was a British writer, journalist and naval intelligence officer who is best known for his James Bond series of spy novels. Fleming came from a wealthy family connected to the merchant bank Robert Fleming & Co., and his father was the Member of Parliament for Henley from 1910 until his death on the Western Front in 1917. Educated at Eton, Sandhurst and, briefly, the universities of Munich and Geneva, Fleming moved through several jobs before he started writing.
