Nancy MacLean Quotes

Public interest has been subordinated to private interest, and when there is no clear distinction between them, it opens the door to endless opportunities for corruption.

Nancy MacLean

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• We would betray Mexicans' hopes for change if we felt satisfied with what we've accomplished so far.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Change
  • Satisfied
  • Betray

• I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13.

  

  Vernon L. Smith
  • Security
  • Social
  • Original

• To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.

  

  Rand Paul
  • American
  • Lost
  • Vote

• It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Work
  • God
  • Quality

• My experience has offered me the sensibility that encourages me to try newer characters.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Experience
  • Me
  • Try

• People say sometimes, gosh, that was brave of you to write such-and-such last week. 'Brave?' What do they mean 'brave?' It's right! How could you not write it?

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • People
  • Brave
  • Week

• I'm happy to just sit in a cafe and watch people. It's my favorite thing to do, for sure.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • People
  • Happy
  • Just

• I am not taking anything for granted.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Granted
  • Taking

• Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Thoughts
  • Thought
  • Harmony

• People frequently ask me if adverse criticism bothers me. I've had a lot of it, and I have been able to shrug most of it off.

  

  Warren Giles
  • People
  • Criticism
  • Adverse

• The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Career
  • Knowledge
  • Education

• My guiltiest pleasure? 'Untamed & Uncut'. Videos of people being attacked by animals. Yeah. I don't know why. I just love seeing guys who say, 'I'm gonna stick my hand in that crocodile's mouth and see what happens.' And then it snaps down on them. There you go - that's what you get! It's a wild animal, my friend.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • People
  • Love
  • Friend

• I've tried Botox, I've tried them all. I'm definitely not one of those people who says, 'You shouldn't do this.' Everyone can individually do what they want. For all time women have wanted to, for the most part, look their best. It's just that what we have available to us today is what it is today and if you want to take advantage of it, yeah.

  

  Kylie Minogue
  • People
  • Time
  • Women

• We're stuck in fear and in not wanting to cross that most important bridge of understanding that we're more alike or not. We all cry, we all laugh.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Important
  • Fear
  • Understanding

• I'm gonna still play some dates, but I'm not gonna do anything near like I did it before.

  

  Buck Owens
  • Play
  • Stills

• I knew that was coming. That's another stupidity. The people who use the term don't even know the meaning. They use it to refer to photographs they believe are loosely organized, or casually made, whatever you want to call it. Whatever terms you like. The fact is, when they're talking about snapshots they're talking about the family album picture, which is one of the most precisely made photographs.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • People
  • Believe
  • Family

• As I get older I perceive Life has its tail in its mouth.

  

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • Life
  • Mouth
  • Perceive

• The Common Law of England has been laboriously built about a mythical figure-the figure of 'The Reasonable Man'.

  

  A. P. Herbert
  • Men
  • Law
  • Funny

• The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. Each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily, or mental or spiritual. Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Freedom
  • Health
  • Suffering

• Most people don't know who Ken Mehlman is. He's the chairman of the Republican Party, obviously, but what he's doing that Howard Dean isn't doing is spending a lot of time on the nuts and bolts of putting the party together.

  

  Susan Estrich
  • People
  • Together
  • Party

• To me, having kids is the ultimate job in life. I want to be most successful at being a good father.

  

  Nick Lachey
  • Job
  • Kids
  • Father

• Public interest has been subordinated to private interest, and when there is no clear distinction between them, it opens the door to endless opportunities for corruption.

  

  Nancy MacLean
  • Interest
  • Corruption
  • Distinction