Elaine Chao Quotes
The President-elect has outlined a clear vision to transform our country’s infrastructure, accelerate economic growth and productivity, and create good paying jobs across the country. I am honored to be nominated by the President-elect to serve my beloved country as Transportation Secretary.
Quotes to Explore
-
It's my job to have ups and downs because it makes good music.
-
For me, it is very important to control a situation in defence. You can always score goals, but you have to add stability in the defence.
-
I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
-
All you have to do is come to Ohio and say, 'I think NAFTA is a lousy deal,' and everybody cheers.
-
The thing, when you're down two sets to love, is to stay calm, even though it's hard, because people are freaking out, people are worried for you.
-
In my real movie-going days, which were the thirties, you didn't stand in line. You strolled down the street and sallied into the theater at any hour of the day or night.
-
The basic question 'will I obey Christ 's teaching?' is rarely taken as a serious issue. For example, to take one of Jesus' commands, that is relevant to contemporary life, I don't know of any church that actually teaches a church how to bless people who curse them, yet this is a clear command.
-
When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.
-
Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.
-
I've never been one to want to be the center of attention and be put up on stages every night. That's just not really my personality. I'm comfortable with it now, but my real passion is being creative.
-
My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and there was very little time. The door was closing, and I wanted to get Bosnia through before it shut.
-
It's so easy to look foolish online.
-
I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.
-
I feel that one of the hardest things in acting is the way you need to switch your emotions.
-
I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.
-
My mind-set is Munich. Most of my generation's is Vietnam.
-
Our policy is not to discourage the private sector, but to see that Air India plays the role of flagship in the industry. In the transport sector, Air India is the 'fate of India' and all efforts will be made to restore its past glory.
-
I don't own a scale, and Tao banned the word 'fat' from our house. If we eat too much, we say, 'I feel clogged up.'
-
...in the whole range of human activities, war most closely resembles a game of cards.
-
There's no way I can represent for everyone. I can't represent for all women or all big women or all black women. It's important for people not to make celebrities their source of who they should be in life. I can't take on the pressure of being perfect. Nobody is.
-
The Bible is big in my teaching. It's a wonder the ACLU didn't get after me pretty good. I really kept thinking they would. I took my boys to church. I took my football team to church. I only did it two times a year. Before I signed a kid, I'd write the parents and I'd tell that parent we were gong to take your son to church twice.
-
There is a good and a bad way to handle everything.
-
It is good to live in a country where all are immigrants ... the newcomer is simply the latest arrival.
-
The President-elect has outlined a clear vision to transform our country’s infrastructure, accelerate economic growth and productivity, and create good paying jobs across the country. I am honored to be nominated by the President-elect to serve my beloved country as Transportation Secretary.
