Quotes by Alan Young

“We had some marvelous outtakes, but the producer had destroyed them all.”

“What clicked on Mister Ed? Ill tell you, it was just about everything. It was an age of innocence. It was just a fun show. I think people had had their fill of quiz shows by then. The quiz shows had been investigated for crookedness.”

“Last year set a new kind of standard, ... I think it does influence, especially when you consider how few people turn out to vote.”

“I said ... on Tuesday we are not saying anything on or off the record. That remains the position.”

“Every Tom, Dick and Harry in our movement has received his cash,”

“We have an awful lot of assumptions that these numbers hold a certain amount of magic, when they really are a snapshot, ... Why are we elevating these narrow scores and thinking they show so much?”

“Something has to be done in the short term, because we have created a panic in our community.”

“It strikes me if you can have a reverse onus for selling drugs surely you can have a reverse onus for a dangerous weapon offence.”

“Judges pretty much act independently once they get on the bench so Im not really sure why Harpers concerned that the court is currently being stacked with a lot of Liberal appointments.”

“In cases where youre trying to do more complex, sophisticated tasks in middle school, thats not as easily translatable into a multiple-choice test, ... If we used more authentic assessments, we might find theyre not doing just as well but maybe better.”