Hamilton Jordan Quotes
You mentioned Ross Perot. Mr. Perot jumped into the race at the last minute, had one issue that he ran on, the budget deficit, was in and out of the race a couple of times, and still got 20 million votes, didn't have the Internet.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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Ohio has long been an embarrassment to charter-school supporters nationwide, with its trail of scandal and graft and abysmal student performance.
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I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.
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Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.
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Before breaking into music, I had various jobs: forklift driver, driving a courier. But I was forced into working rather than doing it off my own bat because that was my dad's way: you got a job and paid your way.
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Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.
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If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in.
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There's a difference between being posh and being rich.
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Some people lose sense of what their music was when their life starts to get better.
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Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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It's very rare, as an actor, to be someplace - to have an address, so to speak.
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I'd been coming to New York for weekends since I was 17, and after 9/11, I started making these trips more frequently, just to make contact with the city.
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An issue that really concerned me when I was on the House Intelligence Committee was the quality of analysis.
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I don't have any elaborate uniforms; I come to the ring in a T-shirt, a pair of sneakers and some shorts.
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I love to come to L.A. to visit, and then I like to come to rainy old London because it's home.
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That's when the great stuff happens, when you're not checking yourself all the time, being critical of yourself and what other people are doing.
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Unless we retain a vibrant desire to be free, and unless we understand and practice the principles that give life to essential freedoms, we have little reason to hope they will endure.
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You mentioned Ross Perot. Mr. Perot jumped into the race at the last minute, had one issue that he ran on, the budget deficit, was in and out of the race a couple of times, and still got 20 million votes, didn't have the Internet.
