Reduced Operational Status

Famous quotes containing the words reduced and/or status:

    “The newspapers are the ruling power. Any other government is reduced to a few marines at Fort Independence. If a man neglects to read the Daily Times, government will go down on its knees to him, for this is the only treason these days.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “As a work of art it has the same status as a long conversation between two not very bright drunks.”
    —Clive James (b. 1939)