wishful quotes

We can applaud the state lottery as a public subsidy of intelligence, for it yields public income that is calculated to lighten the tax burden of us prudent abstainers at the expense of the benighted masses of wishful thinkers.

-Willard Van Orman Quine
  Quiddities,'Gambling'.

Wishful thinking is equally as effective for arms control as it is for birth control.

- Caspar Willard Weinberger
  In USAToday, 6 Oct.