Jacob M. Appel Quotes

You delude yourself that you live in a free country because you never test the boundaries of that freedom.

Much as we do not permit convicted pedophiles to teach kindergarten or convicted hijackers to board airplanes, common sense dictates that individuals who have been imprisoned for plotting violence against abortion clinics should never again be permitted anywhere near such facilities.

While the visible victims may draw the headlines and attract indignant protests from so-called "pro-life" organizations, the invisible victims are people like you and me who will suffer from diseases that are never cured because funds are being poured down a healthcare sieve in order to maintain permanently-unconscious bodies on complex and costly forms of life support.

I have vicarious morning sickness. Other people's babies make me nauseous.

The boss is never your friend, even if you're sleeping with him.

If you give a man a hammer, he thinks he can solve all problems by pounding. Well, God gave men penises....

If God wanted teenagers to be abstinent, puberty would begin at twenty.

The only thing more difficult than persuading someone else to start having sex with you is persuading yourself to stop.

Patriotism is being convinced your country is better because you were born in it.

Most people are far more concerned that they can control their own bodies than they are about petitioning Congress.

I would prefer to believe that a market in fetal organs would empower women to use their reproductive capabilities to their own economic advantage.

One thing led to another. That was the only way to explain how Arnold Brinkman, who considered both professional sports and young children unjustifiable, had ended up at Yankee Stadium with a nine-year-old boy. (Page 5)

Much as constitutional guarantees of press freedom do little good for prospective publishers if they do not have access to paper or ink, the right to aid in dying is strikingly useless if nobody is willing to help.

Money spent on vegetative patients is money not spent on preventive care, such as flu shots and mammograms. Each night in an ICU bed for such patients is a night that another patient with a genuine prognosis for recovery is denied such high-end care. Every dollar exhausted on patients who will never wake up again is a dollar not devoted to finding a cure for cancer.

Be optimistic. Always put on clean underwear if you're going on a date.