Ken Miller

“On average, we consume 71 pounds of caloric sweeteners each year. That’s 22 teaspoons of sugar, per person, per day.”
― Michael Moss, Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us

“it is a maxim founded on the universal experience of mankind that no nation is to be trusted farther than it is bound by its interest.”
― Ron Chernow, Washington: A Life

“As a culture, we’ve become upset by the tobacco companies advertising to children, but we sit idly by while the food companies do the very same thing. And we could make a claim that the toll taken on the public health by a poor diet rivals that taken by tobacco.”
― Michael Moss, Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us

“For Washington, parties weren’t so much expressions of popular politics as their negation, denying the true will of the people as expressed through their chosen representatives.”
― Ron Chernow, Washington: A Life