Quotes of the Morning

“Food is our common ground, a universal experience.”
-James Beard

For the life of me, I cannot understand why the terrorists have not attacked our food supply because it is so easy to do.
-Ex-Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson, December 3, 2004

“If Congress approves [the president's FY2006 budget], the number of domestic food safety inspections made next year would fall by 5%, foreign drug plant inspections would drop 5.8% and checks on the nation's blood banks would be cut 4.7%, compared with estimated 2005 inspections.”
-USA Today, February 14, 2005

“Would someone explain to me again how attacking Iraq and spending the hundreds of billions or so that we’re spending there was supposed to make us more secure against terrorists?”
-Skippy

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
-J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973)

“Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.”
-Orson Welles (1915 - 1985)