Jon Meacham Quotes
Cynically but accurately put, Americans oppose public intervention or regulation if it helps others, but favor it if it helps them - take social security, disaster relief, public works projects, for example.

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I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
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I firmly believe that one of the best kept secrets to soft and glowing skin is moisturisation.
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You must pay for your sins. If you have already paid, please ignore this notice.
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I've achieved more than some people do in a lifetime, but it doesn't mean I've done it all.
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Australia lives with a strange contradiction - our national image of ourselves is one of the Outback, and yet nearly all us live in big cities. Move outside the coastal fringe, and Australia can feel like a foreign country.
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I'm a full-time mom right now and a part-time actress.
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The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body.
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Everything that I do to my own hair and makeup I learned from professionals.
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If I was President of the United States, I'd rather be right than interesting. If I was CEO of a company, I'd rather be right than interesting. But I'm a journalist - what journalist would rather be right than interesting?
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I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?
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We must set up large refugee camps outside the E.U. with armed security and financial support provided by the Union.
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As an actor myself, I know we go where the work is, but I think it's sad the Lyric haven't found any homegrown talent.
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I don't have a BlackBerry or whatever you call it. And there is something to be said for being isolated and out of phone range, because you can fall into a habit to such a degree that you don't even realise that you've lost something: silence.
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Nothing is so embarrassing as watching someone do something that you said couldn't be done.
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It's nice if people can finally loosen up a little bit and just go out laugh at silliness. I mean, people take themselves way too seriously sometimes.
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A gun is a necessity. Who knows if you're walking down a street and you spot a moose?
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In cases of rape, trying to prevent pregnancies is obviously the best thing. The morning-after pill works successfully most of the time. Ultimately we do better if we do have better education about family planning.
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You know that look that women get when they want to have sex? Me neither.
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Be a player; don't play yourself. And don't play basketball. That's not your sport, Jeb Bush.
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You know, you hear about these writers reading 'Lolita' at 12. I wanted to be a chemistry teacher.
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We've got our own power - the power of the purse.
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In the early days, I just got lucky. I would audition for everything and just happen to land in something pretty respectable, like 'Freaks and Geeks,' my first job, which was a complete fluke.
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Cynically but accurately put, Americans oppose public intervention or regulation if it helps others, but favor it if it helps them - take social security, disaster relief, public works projects, for example.