"I have certainly not got re-elected to retire, and I shall certainly start trying to push my influence in politics as far as I possibly can"

-- Kenneth Clarke

#Trying Quotes #Politics Quotes #Influence Quotes

“My solution to the problem would be to tell the North Vietnamese Communists frankly that they've got to drawn in their horns and stop their aggression or we're going to bomb them into the stone age.”

Source : "Mission With LeMay: My Story" by Curtis E. LeMay, MacKinlay Kantor, (p. 565), 1965.
“In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own successes - a virtuous cycle of change.”
“There are two kinds of people I don't trust: people who don't drink and people who collect stickers.”
“Conscious breath control is a useful tool for achieving a relaxed, clear state of mind.”
“We're living in a den of thieves”
“Happiness is always the inaccessible castle which sinks in ruin when we set foot on it.”
“C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg.”

Source : Bjarne Stroustrup's FAQ: Did you really say that?, www.stroustrup.com.
“My strategy to show caricature idea of American youth culture, which I think worked after talking about it for so many years, is that I had only a few things. I wanted to buy my own wardrobe for Rock 'N' Roll High School, which of course they said "Yes" to, because their clothing budget was $200, and I ended up spending my whole salary - which I think was about $2,100 - on my clothes. And also, any time I was onscreen, I wanted to have as much energy as I possibly could. I think it just really worked for the character.”

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