David Axelrod Quotes

I think President Obama is a committed, practicing nonideologue. He's consumed by neither tactics nor ideology. He is more concerned about outcomes than he is about process and categorizations.

David Axelrod

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• Apartheid was in South Africa; now it has been transferred to Palestine.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • Now
  • Africa
  • South Africa

• IBM isn't investing billions of dollars every year into research and development - and winning more patents than our top 10 competitors combined for more than a decade - as an academic exercise. But research is now being driven much more by what people need rather than just by what is possible.

  

  Samuel J. Palmisano
  • People
  • Winning
  • Exercise

• I carry a lot of muscle easily.

  

  Patrick Chan
  • Lot
  • Carry
  • Muscle

• I don't just want to be a cute girl in a comedy or the actress who just does the same thing over and over again. I want to play roles that are distinct. I want to have a more varied career like actresses Viola Davis or Angela Bassett - those are the people that I grew up watching and admiring.

  

  Naturi Naughton 3LW
  • People
  • Up
  • Career

• I think I like playing the bad girl. I like complicated. I like flawed, messed up complicated. It's more interesting.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Think

• Doing the long lines - it looks easy when actresses do it: they just say it straight up, looks like they do nothing wrong, they just keep going, but it's not like that.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • Up
  • Long
  • Doing

• Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.

  

  Barbara Johnson
  • You
  • Like
  • Patience

• High School Musical has been a blessing and a gift.

  

  Zac Efron
  • School
  • High
  • Gift

• Every step, whether at high school or at college or at the NFL, I had to climb and crawl and scratch to get there.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • School
  • High
  • College

• I've always been comfortable working with women and I've had two happy marriages. Draw what conclusions you like from that.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Women
  • Happy
  • Working

• One thing I really love in my single, 'Just Can't Let You Go,' is the beatboxing; I think it's really cool. Also, in my music, I'm not afraid to say what I want to say. I also think it's relatable for other girls out there.

  

  Manika
  • Music
  • Love
  • Single

• It is not true that I oppose government funding of the arts.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • True
  • Government
  • Arts

• One of the things I really love about TV is this symbiotic relationship you can get between the writers and the actors, and the characters start to come to life because you start to collaborate.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Life
  • Love
  • Relationship

• A lot of the lessons that are taught in football will promote success in anything you get into after football; for me, it just happens to be music. Being disciplined. Good character. Trying to do the right thing, and working hard.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Good
  • Music
  • Trying

• You know it's very important, the role of a mother... I don't know, but it's feminism to me to love your kids.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Important
  • Kids
  • Mother

• In a perfect world an idea could be born, nourished, developed and made known to everyone, criticized and perfected, and put to good use without the crude fact of financial support ever entering in to the process. Seldom, if ever, in the practical world in which we live does this occur.

  

  Warren Weaver
  • World
  • Good
  • Live

• I do not know, sir, that the fellow is an infidel; but if he be an infidel, he is an infidel as a dog is an infidel; that is to say, he has never thought upon the subject.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Dog

• 'But you knew them to be evil men-''Was I to join them therefore? To let their acts rule my own? I will not make their choices for them, nor will I let them make mine for me!'

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Men
  • Evil
  • Choices

• I covered the Vietnam War. I remember the lies that were told, the lives that were lost - and the shock when, twenty years after the war ended, former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara admitted he knew it was a mistake all along.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Remember
  • War
  • Lost

• President Obama and Secretary Clinton created a vacuum the way they got out of Iraq, because they got out - what, they shouldn't have been in, but once they got in, the way they got out was a disaster. And ISIS was formed.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Way
  • President
  • Created

• I'm extremely proud. We talked this morning and everything he said he wanted this team to do, it's done. It's really amazing to see.

  

  Rick Pitino
  • Team
  • Proud
  • Wanted

• Anacharsis coming to Athens, knocked at Solon's door, and told him that he, being a stranger, was come to be his guest, and contract a friendship with him; and Solon replying, 'It is better to make friends at home,' Anacharsis replied, 'Then you that are at home make friendship with me.'

  

  Plutarch
  • Home
  • Friends
  • Door

• I think President Obama is a committed, practicing nonideologue. He's consumed by neither tactics nor ideology. He is more concerned about outcomes than he is about process and categorizations.

  

  David Axelrod