"Obama lost his ability to push his agenda through Congress when he received what he himself called a 'shellacking' in the November 2010 elections. That shellacking was primarily the result of massive policy overreach when he had a Democratic Congress in his pocket."

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John Podhoretz

#Pockets Quotes #Agendas Quotes #Election Quotes

“There's a great metaphor that one of my doctors uses: If a fish is swimming in a dirty tank and it gets sick, do you take it to the vet and amputate the fin? No, you clean the water. So, I cleaned up my system. By eating organic raw greens, nuts and healthy fats, I am flooding my body with enzymes, vitamins and oxygen.”
“I try to preface everything with "this isn't new." Because most social movements have happened before and I get that. Nothing I'm doing is new.”
“If I ever have a son, I would call him Frankie, and it's a family name - it's my dad and my dad's dad, so you know, it sticks. I won't forget it.”
“I feel like every couple years MTV reinvents itself in some way, you know?”

Source : "MTV's Teen Wolf Stars Tyler Posey and Crystal Reed: 'We Won't Ruin the Movie'". Interview with Louis Virtel, movieline.com. June 03, 2011.
“I don't understand why, in entertainment, the hours are as long as they are. It seems like everything takes forever, and no one can tell you why exactly.”
“Every fictioneer re-invents the world because the facts, things or people of the received world are unacceptable.”
“What about the future?" "We'll talk about the future when it gets here.”

Source : Arturo Pérez-Reverte (2002). “The Queen of the South”
“Because education is such a broad area, I chose to focus on language learning.”

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