Luna: Barns, Carpenters, Jackasses

State schools Supt. Tom Luna made a comment shortly before the end of today’s City Club of Boise forum on school reform, saying, “Any carpenter can build a barn, any jackass can kick it down.” Asked what he meant by that, Luna said afterward he was repeating a quote that he thought he’d heard attributed to Ronald Reagan; a similar comment is often attributed to Texas Congressman Sam Rayburn. “It’s not original to me,” Luna said. “We’ve waited for almost two years for the opposition that originally called themselves ‘reasonable reform’ to bring forth reasonable reform, and they’ve brought nothing. All they’ve done is attack, attack, attack”/ Betsy Russell , Eye on Boise. More here.

Question: Do you ever quote people of renown?