Scott McClellan Quotes
I still like and admire George W. Bush. I consider him a fundamentally decent person, and I do not believe he or his White House deliberately or consciously sought to deceive the American people.
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We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!
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I'm not really a fan of Valentine's Day. I think it can be romantic doing nothing on Valentine's Day. It's more romantic than being given a big bunch of flowers that everyone else is doing.
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I greatly enjoy reading the biographies of scientists, and when doing so I always hope to learn the secrets of their success. Alas, those secrets generally remain elusive.
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Some talk shows have become so exploitive and tabloid, I wonder if I can believe some of their guests. Where do they find these guests, and why do they deserve air time?
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The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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In our gliding experiments we had had a number of experiences in which we had landed upon one wing, but the crushing of the wing had absorbed the shock, so that we were not uneasy about the motor in case of a landing of that kind.
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I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a certain road.
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I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.
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By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.
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I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash.
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If parents could just get their children moving around in the most simple and fun ways - jumping in leaves, dancing to pop music, throwing socks in a laundry basket - they could be sowing the seeds of great habits that could last a lifetime. It is all about turning it into a game.
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What do you mean you have my children at the police station? Why are my kids at the police station?
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I think that crime is a good vehicle for looking at society in general because the nature of the crime novel means that you draw on a wide group of social possibilities.
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When I was 5 or 6, I was messing around with the piano, and I listened to everything from Chopin to boogie-woogie.
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Privatization is more efficient and effective in some cases, but not in intelligence.
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That's called a microphone. It's a big sausage that picks up everything you say - and you're starting early.
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Paul Volcker is a tremendous hero with the Federal Reserve system and for the American economy. He took very tough actions and helped to break the back of double-digit inflation at a time when it had to be done.
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Frankly I'm fairly boring or fairly busy. Between writing and family, I have little time for anything else.
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County government can be simplified greatly by reorganizing and consolidating some of the offices, making others appointive, and reducing salaries in keeping with the salaries paid by private business for the performance of similar duties.
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I don't really think about retiring. I will retire just before people start saying, 'I knew Leonard Slatkin when he conducted well.'
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I still like and admire George W. Bush. I consider him a fundamentally decent person, and I do not believe he or his White House deliberately or consciously sought to deceive the American people.
