Erskine Bowles Quotes

I am not a politician.

Erskine Bowles

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• I'm a big fan of people like Rachel Bilson and Kate Bosworth. I think they're so chic and have this cool edgy-rocker feel. For about a month I tried to do that, but what I realized is that I can't be anything other than what I am.

  

  India de Beaufort
  • Feel
  • Fan
  • Edgy

• In my music and my life, I'm honest with my feelings, and people appreciate that. That's just the way I am.

  

  La India
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• I am pro-choice, but I don't consider that inconsistent at all with pro-life - there's no way that having an abortion, ever, is an easy decision, and it more often errs on the side of absolutely wrenching, not to mention physically debilitating.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Life
  • Decision
  • Abortion

• I think - you know, I want to intimidate people when I'm on the field. I want people to be scared of me. That's just kind of the nature of who I am as a person and player. But I also know that you have to be emotional. You have to be in touch with your feelings. I think that's important.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Nature
  • Player
  • Feelings

• My kids inspire me to be the person I am today - without them I wouldn't be who I am today.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Kids
  • Person
  • Inspire

• When I am really angry, I clam up, go cold.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Cold
  • Angry
  • Clam

• No politician in a European sense is happy with 26 million people unemployed. Nobody can be happy with 6 to 9 million young people unemployed. You have to give them hope and confidence and a sense of inspiration that the European process is actually about people, not about bureaucracy.

  

  Enda Kenny
  • Hope
  • Confidence
  • Inspiration

• Society and the system and politicians don't want people to be aware of things. They want people to believe what they have to show 'em.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • People
  • Believe
  • Society

• The business of funding digging journalists is important to encourage. It cannot be replaced by bloggers who don't have access to politicians, who don't have easy access to official documents, who aren't able to buttonhole people in power.

  

  Andrew Marr
  • People
  • Important
  • Business

• The Bowery station on the J line is what happens to a neighborhood once politicians realize the people who live there don't vote.

  

  Andrew Vachss
  • People
  • Live
  • Realizing

• No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist.

  

  Andrew Vachss
  • Children
  • Doe
  • Politician

• The only people who say worse things about politicians that reporters do are other politicians.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • People
  • Politician
  • Reporters

• Let's say Donald Trump loses but it's close. That could change the whole way the job of being a politician shifts - that to succeed in politics, you have to be a caricature of what a politician is supposed to be like.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Job
  • Trump
  • Politician

• (Walls) show that politicians have reached the end of their ideas about what to do about a difficult situation with a neighbor. ... They can't think what else to do.

  

  Frederick W. Taylor
  • Thinking
  • Wall
  • Politician

• Cats and dogs believe politicians are like cemetery caregivers; they are on top of everyone, but nobody listens.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Believe
  • Dog
  • Cat

• We animals live life in all its glorious uncertainty. Why do politicians think they can control events?

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Live

• I get no respect. The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Respect
  • Running
  • Luck

• I think Hillary Clinton's a very clever politician but she would be too easy to stereotype the way John Kerry was.

  

  Maureen Dowd
  • Thinking
  • Clever
  • Politician

• Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear. [They are the two sides of a coin, so learning how to manage fear through learning, understanding, rationality, controlled imagination, preparation, mental focus (including distraction) and a gratitude attitude is very helpful.]

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Hope
  • Fear
  • Without

• Operation Rockingham was spinning reports and emphasizing reports that showed non-compliance (by Iraq with UN inspections) and quashing those which showed compliance. It was cherry-picking intelligence.

  

  Scott Ritter
  • Compliance
  • Cherries
  • Inspection

• I'm a panicked karaoke participant because I am always searching for a song in the moment. I don't have my go to song. I will be driving along and I will be like, "That should be my karaoke song!" and then I forget what song it is.

  

  Will Ferrell
  • Song
  • Driving

• 'Seize the Story' takes readers all the way through the process of writing fiction, from beginning to end. Every element, from dialogue to setting, plotting to character creation, is laid out and illustrated with examples. But the tone of the book is not that of a dry writing manual - it's definitely written for teenagers.

  

  Victoria Hanley
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Book

• I am not a politician.

  

  Erskine Bowles
  • Politician