Benjamin E. Sasse Quotes

I don't think we do a great job in America any more of distinguishing between campaigns and governance. We live in an environment that's all campaign all of the time and it's helpful, now that we've moved beyond a campaign and an election to get into a governance posture.

Benjamin E. Sasse

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• If I take a less defensive tone, I'd admit that I couldn't write today a very jazzy, contemporary look at America as I did in 1979 in States of Desire.

  

  Edmund White
  • America
  • Today
  • Desire

• 'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • World
  • Writing
  • Guy

• A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Business
  • Me
  • Marriage

• As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Mother
  • Child
  • Stories

• You should take notes whenever you hear interesting or original language.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • You
  • Interesting
  • Language

• I would never wear anything too revealing. I'm not a fan of dresses where you look nude... I think that looks a bit desperate.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Think
  • Never
  • Look

• If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Voting

• I was lucky enough to be fairly quick at understanding what was taught, but unlucky enough not to be really interested in it, so I always got my exams but never had the scholar's love of learning for its own sake.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Love
  • Learning
  • Understanding

• And I like to convey my feelings, my emotions, my experience, the information I have to public use, public opinion.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Experience
  • Opinion
  • Information

• When I'm hungry, I eat. When I'm thirsty, I drink. When I feel like saying something, I say it.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Feel
  • Saying
  • Hungry

• I won't change anything in my life.

  

  Demi Lovato
  • Life

• A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It's my favorite part of the business - live concerts.

  

  Elvis Presley
  • Live
  • Business

• Depart then satisfied, for he also who releases thee is satisfied.

  

  Marcus Aurelius

• I don't do drugs anymore... than, say, the average touring funk band.

  

  Bill Hicks
  • Band

• There's probably one more story about Bosnia that I'd like to do, because I spent a fair amount of time on the Serb side of the lines, which isn't apparent in the other books.

  

  Joe Sacco
  • Time

• Turns out Picasso's passion for uncertainty, mystery, and the thrill of life never ended.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • Life
  • Passion

• I've aged well because I've had to take care of myself.

  

  Alana Stewart

• And Oliver North was really a good soldier, up to the last moment, shoving memos into the shredder and defending the policy to the end.

  

  Bobby Ray Inman
  • Up
  • Good
  • Soldier

• The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy.

  

  Louis Kronenberger
  • Life
  • America
  • Poetry

• I was adopted into this incredible home, a loving, positive environment, yet I had this yearning, this kind of darkness that was also inside me.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Home
  • Environment
  • Positive

• Every child deserves to attend school in a safe, supportive environment where they can learn, thrive, and grow.

  

  Betsy DeVos
  • School
  • Environment

• There is definitely places in America where, if you're born into that environment, your chances of getting out are really, really limited.

  

  Mario Van Peebles
  • America
  • Environment

• Between Paoli and Penn Hills, Pennsylvania is Alabama without the blacks. They didn't film The Deer Hunter there for nothing - the state has the second-highest concentration of NRA members, behind Texas.

  

  James Carville
  • Texas

• I don't think we do a great job in America any more of distinguishing between campaigns and governance. We live in an environment that's all campaign all of the time and it's helpful, now that we've moved beyond a campaign and an election to get into a governance posture.

  

  Benjamin E. Sasse
  • Environment
  • Campaign
  • Governance