Bill Oberst Jr. Quotes

Abraham Lincoln is the guy who could never be elected today, but whom we desperately wish we could elect.

Bill Oberst Jr.

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• If I'm elected president, let me tell you about my first day in office. The first thing I intend to do is to rescind every illegal and unconstitutional executive action taken by Barack Obama.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Action
  • President
  • Barack Obama

• If I am elected president we will secure the border and we will end the illegal immigration.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • President
  • Immigration
  • Illegal

• If elected, I will win.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Win
  • Will
  • Elected

• I desperately need the love of complete strangers. That's one reason I overtip. I love when skycaps, waiters, and valets are happy to see me.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Love
  • Happy
  • Reason

• Being elected to Congress, though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it, has not pleased me as much as I expected.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Friends
  • Grateful
  • Congress

• When I'm get­ting ready to per­suade a per­son, I spend one-third of the time think­ing about myself, what I'm going to say, and two-thirds of the time think­ing about him and what he is going to say. -Abra­ham Lincoln Always think of what you have to do as easy and it will be.

  

  Emile Coue
  • Think
  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Persuade

• I'm not trying to be insensitive to other parishes, but I was elected to represent the residents of Jefferson Parish, ... And as long as hurricane season is still open, we have to protect this parish.

  

  John Young
  • Protect
  • Represent
  • Elected

• In a nonviolent army, the general and the officers are elected, or are as if elected, when their authority is moral and rests solely on the willing obedience of the rank and file.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Army
  • Authority
  • Elected

• Because people were attracted to him because he was not elected to an office. He was not a politician. And like you said before, he was a person that people say "Wow! He has the idea!" But the more and more you listen to Donald Trump, the more you have the sense that he is not the person that's going to run the country. And I have strong views.

  

  Dalia Mogahed
  • People
  • Office
  • Elected

• My movies more often are told through pictures, not words. But in this case, the pictures took second position to the incredible words of Abraham Lincoln and his presence ... I was less interested in an outpouring of imagery than in letting the most human moment of this story evolve before us.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Words
  • Movies
  • Pictures

• I was the only Jew who'd ever been elected, and I don't know when there'll be another.

  

  Joseph Wapner
  • Know
  • Been
  • Only

• If I'm privileged to be elected, I'd be blessed to represent a diverse district, including South Asians and Indian Americans.

  

  Raja Krishnamoorthi
  • Blessed
  • Americans
  • Elected

• The diagnosis is clear, but changing the status quo has proven difficult, because often those who are elected do not govern, and those who do govern are not elected.

  

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
  • Govern
  • Status
  • Elected

• You’re like…you’re like Abraham Lincoln. Didn’t he walk some ungodly distance to return a penny? The store clerk probably thought he was an idiot.

  

  Brenda Novak
  • Distance
  • Idiot
  • Abraham Lincoln

• During the fall of my junior year, I interned in Intergovernmental Affairs in The White House with a focus on outreach to local elected officials. Although I hated the menial tasks the job required, it gave me a window into the power of local government.

  

  Michael Tubbs
  • Government
  • Window
  • Elected

• Here in Brazil, the president and the vice president are elected together.

  

  Michel Temer
  • Together
  • President
  • Here

• If we only elected good men, we'd never have leaders.

  

  Enoch Fitch Burr
  • Leaders
  • Elected
  • Good Men

• Donald Trump is defeating himself. He is ensuring that Hillary Clinton is elected. I think they would both be absolutely terrible.

  

  Evan McMullin
  • Donald Trump
  • Hillary Clinton
  • Elected

• ...now that everyone could vote from home, via the OASIS, the only people who could get elected were movie stars, reality TV personalities, or radical televangelists.

  

  Ernest Cline
  • Vote
  • Personalities
  • Elected

• We learn to beat fear by doing.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Fear
  • Learn
  • Doing

• The food thing is crazy to me. In this town the beer thing is also crazy to me. Frankly even with Brightest Young Things, it's such a celebration of [beer and food], all this stuff. I don't think it's bad or evil, but there's something out of bounds. It's like, "A bar opened!" Who cares? Think about that.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Thinking
  • Bad
  • Food

• My first instinct when I write songs is not a negative one. It's something positive... Everything I've ever done has some form of hope in it, I think.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Done
  • Hope
  • Positive

• Roosevelt gazed around the library. A glint in his spectacles betrayed displeasure. Loeb came up inquiringly, and there was a whispered conversation in which the words newspapermen and sufficient room were audible. Hurrying outside, Loeb returned with two dozen delighted scribes. They proceeded to report the subsequent ceremony with a wealth of detail unmatched in the history of presidential inaugurations.

  

  Edmund Morris
  • History
  • Library
  • Wealth

• Abraham Lincoln is the guy who could never be elected today, but whom we desperately wish we could elect.

  

  Bill Oberst Jr.
  • Elected
  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Desperately