Look Who's Talking

A sampling of who said what on the FSU campus


"Whoever says the current situation is a result of 1,000 or 500 years of hatred is either ignorant or a liar."

Bosnian Ambassador
Nedzib Sacribey
March 14


"In business you've got to manage money carefully. If you don't, you'll go broke. In politics, you don't have to manage money carefully, and when you don't, you raise taxes...
...Even mud wrestling has rules. Politics relies on magic tricks and illusions. In politics, people get into office based on their acting ability."

Reform Party founder
H. Ross Perot
March 28


"The courts are blamed for many of the ills of society. (But) it's really not our fault that one out of every two marriages ends in divorce."

Florida Supreme Court Chief Justice Stephen Grimes
March 28


"At that time (the late '60s) women were often told, 'Women can't, women don't, and women shouldn't.' "

Roe v. Wade attorney
Sarah Weddington
April 3



"We are at a point in history where many forces have combined to produce both unprecedented progress and unacceptable anxiety - creating what Robert Samuelson has aptly described as 'the good life and its discontents.' We seem to have become an aggrieved society."

U.S. Sen. Nancy Kassebaum
Spring commencement
April 27