B. F. Skinner Quotes

He was able to put them on the trail of the truth to find out just exactly what was going on in this scandal.

These crises are such a heavy burden, and they are so self-inflicted, except for the court vacancies, that if he is not very careful and tries to put across someone who is seen as an ultraconservative, he is going to touch off a conflagration in the Senate.

Kennedy was very sensitive to this question of ever using nuclear weapons,

I think he`s really undermined his credibility at this point, and it really saddles him with the kind of problems that Johnson and Nixon faced. These crises are such a heavy burden, and they are so self-inflicted, except for the court vacancies, that if he is not very careful and tries to put across someone who is seen as an ultraconservative, he is going to touch off a conflagration in the Senate.

That`s why pragmatism is such a central ingredient of an effective presidency. If you`re not pragmatic, not responsive to changing realities, then you don`t succeed.

as he put it. Still, he added: ``Bush did make a comeback then. But the country was more receptive to his kind of leadership. I can`t see how they`re going to turn this around.

The images that have been constantly on television--a city that is under water, people who have been displaced, sobbing, crying, the evacuation of people--you can have this kind of spin-doctoring and have people say all sorts of things, but I think these realities on the ground (matter).

A crisis is an opportunity for a president to step forward and exert effective leadership, and establish his credentials as a significant occupant of the Oval Office.

There`s no question that these sorts of television images have a big impact on people and in many respects shape reactions to the White House,

I think he`s really undermined his credibility at this point, and it really saddles him with the kind of problems that Johnson and Nixon faced.

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

We shouldn`t teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.