[PW] ? Quotations from Swarthmore Alumni (Quotation Query #652)

[S M Colowick]

Dukakis: "This election isn't about ideology; it's about competence."
(nomination acceptance speech,
http://www.4president.org/speeches/mikedukakis1988acceptance.htm)

Franzen: "She's picked some good books, but she's picked enough
schmaltzy, one dimensional ones that I cringe, myself, even though I
think she's really smart and she's really fighting the good fight."
(interview, http://www.powells.com/authors/franzen.html)

On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 5:01 AM, Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:
>
> For an article I am writing about famous quotations by Swarthmore alumni, I would welcome suggestions of quotes by any of the following people:
>
> Michael Dukakis (Presidential candidate)
> James Michener (novelist)
> David Baltimore (biologist)
> Peter Schickele ( = P.D.Q. Bach)
> John Diebold (computer visionary)
> A. Mitchell Palmer (Attorney General)
> Robert P. George (conservative political philosopher)
> Carl Levin (Senator from Michigan)
> Robert D. Putnam (author of Bowling Alone)
> Molly Yard (president of NOW)
> Jonathan Franzen (author of The Corrections)
> Victor Navasky (publisher of Nation, author)
> Drew Pearson (journalist)
> NOrman Rush (novelist)
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> Fred Shapiro
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