Warrior In Debate Pillows

"Aren't you being a little arrogant, son? Here's Lieutenant Colonel Farrington, Major Stark, Captain Truelove, Lieutenant Castle, and myself, all older and more experienced than you, and we think the war is very moral."

"No! I want to live! I want to live!"

"Of course it's not clean energy -- We don't have clean ANYTHING!"

The Jose Padilla Experience

'I'll just put them here until the danger of frost passes - probably next April'

'You're on the shortlist. It's between you and the bloke who's going to get the job.'

"Can I put in a claim for interview trauma compensation?"

"Welcome to the brave new corporate gulag, Hank. The dissenting wheel always gets the shrink!"

Tea Party and the US economy

Jason and the Aga notes.

"Tell us something we don't know."

'I know I've interviewed for this position last month, but since then I've hired a personal coach. I was thinking maybe a do-over interview.'

'What's a guy got to do to get a drink around here?'

'Yes, Frank. I'm sure you can make two hundred words out of just twenty six letters.'

'So, after much wailing and gnashing of teeth, the financial report is approved.'

'Thanks for coming in. Whoever gets the job will call you next week and let you know our decision.'

Protecting the green

"Just when did you leave your last job?"

"Why do I always get stuck with being the guardian angel to someone who can't seem to finish his Ph.D.?"

"We must root out corruption at the highest levels of government and make it look like it's happening at the lowest levels of government."

Your friends at the FCC

'I don't know anything about anything, but I'm great at looking stuff up!'

"Watch yourself going up the high street. . . the election canvassers are out in force!"

"I'ma N.R.A. stalwart."

"I buried my doctoral thesis in an unmarked grave. . . because, ultimately, you never know."

Contrary opinions matter

Always right.

"I've been thinking harder than you have, and my thought experiment disproves your thought experiment."

Arms Fair - "Of course as part of our ethical foreigh policy the 20 kiloton population fragmentation bomb is only available to respectable governments."

'Just when you think you've reached the final awareness, they send another update.'

I haven't been hired yet.

My doctor says my heart is fragile. I'm supposed to cut down on my activism. You mean activity? Activism. He says that getting upset about idiotic, right-wing, greedy jerks is bad for my heart. He's a quack! This ends badly.

"Where do I see myself five years from now? Probably looking back at this interview to remember what I told you so I know what I should be doing."

'Are you willing to change your name to Bob Smith?'

Don't Leave Work Without It