"Well, Americans expect our president to be human beings, and as imperfect as all of us are. They expect us to make mistakes and all that. But one thing the American public likes is, if you make a mistake, you do that, you cross that line that they expect you to behave under, then you apologize or then you correct that behavior and said you have learned, you are going to do better, you are going to achieve better, and you are going to serve a higher purpose than that."

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Source : Source: www.pbs.org

Matthew Dowd

#Mistake Quotes #President Quotes #Purpose Quotes

“Dream as big as you can dream, and anything is possible.”

Source : "Phelps ties Spitz’s record with seventh gold medal... just barely". Sports Illustrated, August 16, 2008.
“I think when you live with somebody, you grow up. You learn a lot about yourself through somebody else.”
“I believe all Southern liberals come from the same starting point--race. Once you figure out they are lying to you about race, you start to question everything.”

Source : Molly Ivins (2010). “Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?”, p.14, Vintage
“In real life I'm not the character I play in my films. I'm reasonably competent, I work very hard, I'm disciplined, I lead a very middle class life. I work in the mornings, I have lunch, I practise my clarinet, I go to the movies, I eat out in restaurants or watch ball games on television or at the ball games.”
“My friends tend to be writers. I think writers and painters are really all the same-we just sit in our rooms.”
“All human societies go through fads in which they temporarily either adopt practices of little use or else abandon practices of considerable use.”
“People who vote against this today are voting against me and I will not forget.”

Source : "A Senator Whom Colleagues Are Hesitant to Cross" by Carl Hulse, www.nytimes.com. October 25, 2003.
“In the years just after 9/11, even being breathed on by a suspected terrorist could land you in extralegal detention for the rest of your life.”

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