Bob McDonnell Quotes
There is no question that the minority party always makes a sport of going after the governor.
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We've come a long way since Nixon's first visit to China, or Carter's reestablishment of diplomatic relations.
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I don't just say I'm conservative. I have boot leather to my gospel.
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.
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I want to live in a country that is not just a place but also an idea, and Jerusalem is the heart of the idea. There may be practical considerations, but a country cannot exist without an ethos, and Jerusalem is an ethos.
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All things considered, defending our borders by building a fence to keep out people is a necessity. There is no more humane alternative when it comes to protecting ourselves. We must act humanely, within the law, while honoring transparency, but with firm resolve.
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One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.
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The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away.
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My position does not give me the liberty to exclude anything, but my mood tells me there will not be violence.
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The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.'
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The real story is that I had unprotected sex. That's that. That's easy.
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I am not an optimist. I'm a very serious possibilist. It's a new category where we take emotion apart and we just work analytically with the world.
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I go out with my band six months of the year and the rest of them with the Blues Brothers.
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Since the beginning of time, children have not liked to study. They would much rather play, and if you have their interests at heart, you will let them learn while they play; they will find that what they have mastered is child's play.
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What we have as artists is the immortalization opportunity that others don't have, because our work is lasting; it's there forever to view.
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When Ted Williams was here, inducted into the Hall of Fame 37 years ago, he said he must have earned it, because he didn't win it because of his friendship with the writers. I guess in that way, I'm proud to be in this company that way.
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Books teach children to see the world through the eyes of others and empathise with others. It's about the story.
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If you want to go east, don't go west.
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Half a century ago, Ronald Reagan, the man whose relentless optimism inspired me to enter politics, famously said that he didn't leave the Democratic Party; the party left him. I can certainly relate. I didn't leave the Republican Party; it left me.
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It's horrible to think that a small cadre of people would manipulate that information. I mean, for God's sake, we've admitted that we were experimenting on our veterans with mustard gas. So there is no security question. It can't possibly be the reason.
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I've always been able to just concoct a melody quite easily - it's just kind of instinct, really. You've got to channel your subconscious.
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The clue to book jacket photography is to look friendly and approachable, but not too glamorous.
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I don't hide my being Israeli. I say it in every interview. I put out a record with songs in Hebrew. The people who signed me have no connection to Judaism or Israel.
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There is no question that the minority party always makes a sport of going after the governor.
