The unique perspective and provocative opinions of Joe O’Neill
Quoteworthy
“I did feel a bit of panic at one point. But when things are going the way they were, what do you expect? We just couldn’t get it going.” –Bucs’ center JeffFaine.
“What’s wrong with democracy? When giving people choices becomes politically unpopular and elected people run from that, they should not be in office.” –Connect-Us co-founder and former Hillsborough County Commissioner Ed Turanchik on commissioners who don’t favor a transit-tax referendum next year.
“If you tried to devise a strategy for destroying the Republican Party in Florida, you couldn’t do much better than this.” – Retired USF political scientist DarrylPaulson on how the GOP’s increasingly unruly — but influential — conservative base impacts the party’s mainstream appeal in Florida.
“I did not run for office to be helping out a bunch of fat-cat bankers on Wall Street.” –President Barack Obama.
“A nonviolent movement could not have halted Hitler’s armies.” – President Barack Obama in his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech.
“If America doesn’t act to develop innovative energy technology, we will lose the green jobs competition not only to Finland and Germany (as we are now) but also to China.” –Jared Diamond, UCLA professor of geographyand author ofGuns, Germs and Steel and Collapse.
“You have two wars. You have the economy. You have the debate on health care. It is clear to me that the administration is not prepared at this moment to give a priority to the relationship with Cuba.” – Ricardo Alarcon, Speaker of Cuba’s National Assembly.