David Gergen Quotes

We've seen the hubris. And now we're seeing the scandals.

David Gergen

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• I signed this girl's arm. And the next day, a family member shot me an email, and it was a link to this girl who had my signature tattooed on her arm. I was like, 'Man, that's dedication. I'm sorry you did that.'

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Family
  • Man
  • Girl

• I like to be home with my son, kickin' it and watching ESPN, a very normal life. I like to take him to school every day, watch his games.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Life
  • School
  • Home

• I try not to get involved in the business of prediction. It's a quick way to look like an idiot.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • Business
  • Look
  • Idiot

• I was an avid tomboy, and as long as I could ride my bike just as fast, hit the ball just as hard, and catch just as many garter snakes, I was accepted as one of the boys and enjoyed all the perks of superiority.

  

  Tawni O'Dell
  • Long
  • Bike
  • Ride

• I have always encouraged my restaurant operators and team members to give back to the local community.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • Team
  • Community
  • Restaurant

• Flirting is funny. And it's awkward and weird.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Funny
  • Weird
  • Awkward

• What made 'American Idol' different from 'The Voice' and all these other singing competitions... 'American Idol' just gave regular old normal people like me and like Trent a chance.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • People
  • Different
  • American

• Positive social emotions like compassion and empathy are generally good for us, and we want to encourage them. But do we know how to most reliably raise children to care about the suffering of other people? I'm not sure we do.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Good
  • Children

• Criminals gravitate into government positions like natural law.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Law
  • Government
  • Natural

• As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Think
  • New
  • Act

• I would never totally deny myself any specific type of food.

  

  Fleur East
  • Food
  • Myself
  • Never

• For decades, we resisted violence - until Sharpeville.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Violence
  • Decades
  • Until

• I don't enjoy good food. I don't enjoy flashy cars. I don't care if I live in a dump. I don't enjoy good clothes. This is the best I've dressed in months.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Good
  • Live
  • Food

• I still do a bit of this and a bit of that. Some brews and there's nothing wrong with a bud or two! I still do a bit of this and a bit of that. Some brews and there's nothing wrong with a bud or two!

  

  Eddie Money
  • Nothing
  • Wrong
  • Two

• Shell Oil's decision to pull the plug on drilling for oil in the Chukchi Sea is a major victory for the Arctic.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Decision
  • Sea
  • Victory

• My background is putting in large systems that change lives... The right kind of systems can bring honesty and efficiency.

  

  Nandan Nilekani
  • Change
  • Honesty
  • Efficiency

• I won't have a traditional marriage; I don't find the value in that anymore. But I am such a hopeless romantic and I really want love and I want a committed relationship, so I am going to reinvent marriage for myself.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Relationship
  • Value
  • Marriage

• As any opera fan knows, lawyers and judges do not fare well in most operas. Just consider the productions of 'Andrea Chenier,' 'Aida, Norma,' 'Billy Budd,' 'Peter Grimes,' 'The Crucible,' 'Lost in the Stars,' 'The Marriage of Figaro,' 'The Makropulos Case' and Wagner's 'Ring' cycle. Around 1810, the theme of justice emerged in opera.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Lost
  • Justice
  • Marriage

• I'm such a generalist. I love everything. If I had the opportunity, I think I would do about 10 different degrees, five different master's degrees, probably as many Ph.D.s, and you can't do that.

  

  Elise Andrew
  • Different
  • Opportunity

• It's a good fixture for us and it could decide it. Hopefully we beat them to go up.

  

  Clinton Morrison
  • Beat
  • Decide
  • Go Up

• Only in eternity shall we see the beauty of the soul, and only then shall we realize what great things were accomplished by interior suffering.

  

  Mother Angelica
  • Soul
  • Suffering
  • Realizing

• When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, inner life in which freedom lives. In which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.

  

  Ralph Bellamy
  • Life
  • Great
  • Country

• What I learned from my work as a physician is that even with the most complicated patients, the most complicated problems, you've got to look hard to find every piece of data and evidence that you can to improve your decision-making. Medicine has taught me to be very much evidence-based and data-driven in making decisions.

  

  Jim Yong Kim
  • Work
  • Decision

• We've seen the hubris. And now we're seeing the scandals.

  

  David Gergen