Trivia: 09/10/12: That Just Bugs Me.

TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTE

QUOTE: "Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better. Things go wrong when we get too comfortable, when we fail to take risks or seize opportunities."
HINT: (1964-), American diplomat, former think-tank fellow, and civil servant.

RANDOM TIDBITS

The first useful application for aerosol spray cans was introduced during World War II. Insecticide-filled "bug bombs," as they were called, helped protect American military personnel from disease-carrying insects.
In the first season of the sitcom Full House, John Stamo's character was an exterminator named Jesse Cochran. He later found a better job as a jingle writer and rock musician and a decidedly more Greek last name: Katsopolis.
Guitarist Greg Ginn of punk band Black Flag revealed that, although the band's moniker wasn't specifically inspired by the popular brand of insect-control products, they didn't mind the connection: "It just sounded, you know, heavy."
Through the mid-twentieth century, untold ecological damage occurred after several nations began purposely spreading oil over mosquito-infested swamps in order to reduce the spread of malaria.
Marvin Glass and Associates designed the original Mouse Trap board game that Ideal sold in 1963. However, the company refused to pay any royalties or licensing fees to Rube Goldberg, even though the game's elaborate mousetrap resembled one of his cartoons.
Green Acres star Eddie Albert was also an ardent environmentalist and one of the first people to call for a ban on DDT. In 1969, he sailed to Anacapa Island to study the pelicans there and found that chicks were dying because the pesticide had caused mothers to lay eggs with shells that were too fragile.
QUOTE: "Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better. Things go wrong when we get too comfortable, when we fail to take risks or seize opportunities."
ANSWER: Susan Rice.