Eric Holder Quotes

I was raised - professionally - in the Public Integrity Section. I started in 1976, stayed there for 12 years. It was formed after Watergate by then-head of the Criminal Division Dick Thornburgh, who ultimately became Attorney General.

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• I am basically a citizen of the modern world, as we all are, praise the Lord and damn us all to hell.

  

  Ed Weeks
  • World
  • Hell
  • Lord

• Now and always, hard-line policy and those who embrace it are vessels for darker forces that are at once self-cannibalizing and combustible. No good can come of them. They are unsustainable because their sense of righteousness denies human worth.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Good
  • Now
  • Embrace

• I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living.

  

  Harold Budd
  • Life
  • America
  • Professional

• Well, it's taken a long time to get the Department of Homeland Security established. It's taken a long time for the Congress to decide how much it wanted to fund.

  

  Warren Rudman
  • Time
  • Long
  • Taken

• My mother was a trained nurse, and she'd tell me that patients would fight as they were administered anaesthetic, grappling to get the gas mask off their face.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Mother
  • Fight
  • Nurse

• Being a nice person is about courtesy: you're friendly, polite, agreeable, and accommodating. When people believe they have to be nice in order to give, they fail to set boundaries, rarely say no, and become pushovers, letting others walk all over them.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Believe
  • Nice

• I am not authorized to fire substitute teachers.

  

  Nancy Cartwright
  • Teachers
  • Substitute
  • Authorized

• Mars is really different, into art. Lydia Lunch is more energy. James Chance is more commercial in a different way, in funk and jazz. They were all doing original things, trying to create their own sound and music. I think they're all great.

  

  Ikue Mori
  • Great
  • Music
  • Different

• I was never no, never no, never enough, But I can try, I can try to toughen up.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Up

• I fear my ignorance.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Fear
  • Ignorance

• Liberals hate America, they hate flag-wavers, they hate abortion opponents, they hate all religions except Islam, post 9/11. Even Islamic terrorists don't hate America like liberals do. They don't have the energy. If they had that much energy, they'd have indoor plumbing by now.

  

  Ann Coulter
  • America
  • Energy
  • Hate

• When you have a tough year or a year that didn't go the way you wanted it, especially the playoffs and all that and not being able to take advantage of our team and our talent on our team, you feel that. And whenever something is taken away from you like that, you definitely cherish it more.

  

  Blake Griffin
  • Team
  • Taken

• I'm blessed to come from a family with five brothers. We're all physical and athletic and like to work out, like to be outside, like to throw the ball around. We spent our entire childhoods on some kind of corner or in a field. We still do a Turkey Bowl every Thanksgiving. It gets competitive, man. Bloody.

  

  Danny Pino
  • Work
  • Family
  • Blessed

• A government full of Democrats would rather have you be a Republican, and a government full of Republicans would rather have you be a Democrat, than have you oppose both.

  

  Brian Celio

• My job is just to go out and play hard every day.

  

  Andrew Benintendi
  • Job

• Leslie Nielsen was my favorite growing up; getting to work with him was amazing.

  

  Drake Bell
  • Up
  • Work
  • Growing

• We all want a world without war, without conflict, without human suffering.

  

  Jeremy Gilley
  • World
  • War
  • Suffering

• In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science.

  

  Martin H. Fischer
  • Science
  • Understanding
  • Sick

• Our policy for the last many years has been to deter the Chinese government in Beijing from ever coming into the position where they thought they had enough leverage over the U.S. to cross the Straits of Taiwan.

  

  Bob Filner
  • Chinese

• Happiness lends poetic charms to woman, and dress adorns her like a delicate tinge of rouge.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Happiness
  • Delicate
  • Charms

• I don't know how you overcome the dearth of scientists in the government positions.

  

  Nina Fedoroff
  • Government
  • Scientists
  • Dearth

• If you have just an emotion, you would not necessarily feel it. To feel an emotion, you need to represent in the brain in structures that are actually different from the structures that lead to the emotion, what is going on in the organs when you're having the emotion.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • Different
  • Brain
  • Emotion

• As long as you are conscious of yourself, you can never concentrate on anything.

  

  Walpola Rahula
  • Long
  • Conscious
  • Concentrate

• I was raised - professionally - in the Public Integrity Section. I started in 1976, stayed there for 12 years. It was formed after Watergate by then-head of the Criminal Division Dick Thornburgh, who ultimately became Attorney General.

  

  Eric Holder
  • Integrity
  • Criminal
  • Attorney