"Don't provoke a snake unless you have the intention and power to cut off its head."

"Don't provoke a snake unless you have the intention and power to cut off its head."
Saddam Hussein
As quoted in "Saddam Hussein: Great Lessons, Commandments to Strugglers, the Patient and Holy Warriors." Saddam's 57 commandments are distributed in pamphlets and displayed on school walls, statues and billboards.
"Because of this legislation, it's literally true that something like 1,000 people will not die each year who would have otherwise died from secondhand smoking."
Mayor Michael Bloomberg
Of New York, on the agreement he made with city council to ban smoking in almost all restaurants and bars.