"Q: Is there anything you would have done differently? A: "I would have done it in July."
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--Jeff Skiles - co-pilot of Flight 1549, From the film "Sully" at the NTSB investigation hearing on their forced water landing into 36° F water of the Hudson River.
This is the most tactless speech I have ever heard. The Germans are really a stupid people. They always do the wrong thing.
-- Woodrow Wilson, On hearing a speech by German foreign minister Count Ulrich von Brockdorff-Rantzau at negotiations for what became the Treaty of Versailles 1919