This is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered in the White Houseöwith the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.

-Kennedy,John F(itzgerald)
   Address at a dinner for 49 Nobel laureates, 29  Apr.

The most desirable mental state for a potential consumer†is a kind of free-floating anxietyand depression, combined with a nice collection of unrealistic goals and desires.

-Lurie, Alison
  Of advertising. In the NewYork Review of Books, 2  Jun.