David Rubenstein Quotes

My father worked in a post office and never made probably more than $8,000 a year as an employee of the post office, so when people can rise up from very modest circumstances and do well economically, I think that's a good thing about America, and we should encourage that kind of activity.

David Rubenstein

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I love people with strong convictions, because we are living in a very PC world. You can't crack a joke without it being in the headlines.

Imelda May
- World
- Strong
- Living
Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.

Sam Worthington
- Fall
- Actors
- Directors
I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.

P. J. O'Rourke
- Think
- Government
- Easy
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

Edmund Burke
- Freedom
- Wisdom
- Liberty
My mother is the sort of woman who not only can raise a chicken and roast it to moist perfection but, as she proved to my openmouthed sister and me on a family holiday to Morocco when we were very young, can barter for one in a market, kill it, pluck it, and then cook it to perfection.

Hamish Bowles
- Family
- Mother
- Sister
What I've learned is that people have a desire to talk after the first line of reporters go away, and they are no longer speaking out of shock.

Tamron Hall
- People
- Desire
- First