We can applaud the state lottery as a public subsidy of intelligence, for it yields public income that is calculated to lighten the tax burden of us prudent abstainers at the expense of the benighted masses of wishful thinkers.

-Quine,Willard Van Orman
  Quiddities,'Gambling'.

Wishful thinking is equally as effective for arms control as it is for birth control.

-Weinberger, Caspar Willard
  In USAToday, 6 Oct.