Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by John P. Wheeler III

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Last updated on April 19, 2025.

John Parsons Wheeler III, known as Jack Wheeler, was an American businessman and former White House aide. Wheeler was chairman of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, senior planner for Amtrak (1971–1972), official of the Securities and Exchange Commission (1978–1986), chief executive and CEO of Mothers Against Drunk Driving, consultant to the Mitre Corporation (2009–death), and a presidential aide to the Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and George W. Bush administrations. He also held numerous other positions in the United States military, government, and corporations. He died under mysterious circumstances on December 30, 2010.

December 14, 1944 - December 31, 2010

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Is the very mechanism for the universe to come into being meaningless or unworkable or both unless the universe is guaranteed to produce life, consciousness and observership somewhere and for some little time in its history-to-be?

John P. Wheeler III

The laws of physics must provide a mechanism for the universe to come into being.

John P. Wheeler III

The universe does not exist 'out there,' independent of us. We are inescapably involved in bringing about that which appears to be happening. We are not only observers. We are participators. In some strange sense, this is a participatory universe. Physics is no longer satisfied with insights only into particles, fields of force, into geometry, or even into time and space. Today we demand of physics some understanding of existence itself.

John P. Wheeler III

If you don't kick things around with people, you are out of it. Nobody, I always say, can be anybody without somebody being around.

John P. Wheeler III

The most cost-effective move we could make in defense spending would be to shift the focus of CIA operations, giving this agency the directive to make trouble for the Soviet Union.

John P. Wheeler III

I would like to offer a candidate to be added to the venerable list of English collective nouns: a scum of politicians.

John P. Wheeler III

Congress is a Mafia running a protection racket.. .

John P. Wheeler III