Walter Russell Mead Quotes

Mr. Obama's approach to engagement to some degree makes him dependent on people who wish neither him nor America well. This doesn't have to end badly and I hope that it doesn't - but it's not an ideal position after one's first year in power.

Walter Russell Mead

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• Power
• America
• Hope
• Wish
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• Engagement

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• Gym Class is a band I am more directly involved with than any other band except for Fall Out Boy.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Band
  • Involved
  • Gym Class

• The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy.

  

  Karen Hughes
  • Travel
  • Economy
  • Tourism

• When I was a kid, all I ever wanted was to be famous.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Famous
  • Wanted
  • Kid

• I believe a lot in monogamy, let me tell you.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Believe
  • Me
  • Tell

• I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.

  

  Malcolm Wilson
  • Music
  • Try
  • Again

• Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don't believe too much into inspiration, only I'm waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It's a little too easy to say that.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Inspiration

• There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Myself
  • Learn
  • Criticism

• When I started out, the idea of comfort in shoes was almost a dirty word.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Idea
  • Shoes
  • Dirty

• In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale Law Journal.'

  

  Randall Kennedy
  • School
  • Law
  • Respect

• We've made some good beginnings with the New START Treaty, but a lot more can be done.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Good
  • Done
  • Start

• The best time to release a film is on a festive date like Divali or Eid, or at a time when there are no big films three to four weeks before or after.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Time
  • Best
  • Three

• The better I am at observing moments in life, the better I'll be at showing them in my acting.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Life
  • Moments
  • Acting

• The two championship contenders, Dario Franchitti and Will Power, are starting right next to each other in the middle of the grid. Honestly, if I can be fast enough early in the race to be able to get up there and latch onto those two, it will be pure entertainment. It's going to be a pack race, and you never know how that's going to turn out.

  

  Dan Wheldon
  • Up
  • Power
  • Know

• You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we're presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated - not nearly as black and white as we're led to believe.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • World
  • Believe
  • Black

• We're going to test with the same car, but we have a new car ready.

  

  Larry Dixon
  • Car
  • Same
  • Test

• For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art is.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • People
  • Music
  • Important

• No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Man
  • See
  • Blind

• The actors that I admire are able to step into so many different roles.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Different
  • Step
  • Admire

• I know when I make a decision, I'm increasing my own personal work day.

  

  Jerry Jones
  • Work
  • Decision

• I love coaching my grandkids, but I love working with my two sons. J.D. is the head coach, and I'm the assistant - you believe that? I missed so much of them growing up. I really messed up there. So I like working with J.D. and Coy. I'm trying not to do the same thing again. With J.D. and Coy, I missed so much.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Trying

• People do stupid things in the heat of the moment. I've been in Vegas where I've gotten married for, like, five minutes.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • People
  • Stupid
  • Moment

• Federal waste is a grave disservice to hardworking taxpayers across our great nation, and yet our governmental bureaucracies are riddled with it - whether through unnecessary, duplicative, inefficient, outdated, or failed agencies and programs.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Great
  • Nation
  • Great Nation

• Names and individuals are unimportant when Germany's final fate is at stake.

  

  Franz von Papen
  • Fate

• Mr. Obama's approach to engagement to some degree makes him dependent on people who wish neither him nor America well. This doesn't have to end badly and I hope that it doesn't - but it's not an ideal position after one's first year in power.

  

  Walter Russell Mead
  • People
  • Power
  • America