"I'm not conniving - that has a pejorative context. I'm not sitting in back rooms making deals. That's not my style."

-- Bess Myerson

#Style Quotes #Rooms Quotes #Sitting Quotes

“The American people know the economy is too weak. Too many of them are suffering. So the question for Washington is, are we going to continue to play political games and - and - or are we going to say, we can do something right now to create jobs, to put money in the pockets of the middle-class, hire construction workers, teachers, veterans?”

Source : "White House Senior Advisor David Plouffe". "This Week" with Christiane Amanpour, abcnews.go.com. September 25, 2011.
“my rebelliousness went so deep that, faced with a can of asparagus that instructed me to open at this end, I always, stubbornly, opened it at the other.”
“If you can draw the stone rightly, everything within reach of art is also within yours.”
“When does the loneliness of old age begin?”
“If you don't have a moral question governing your society, then you don't have a society that is going to survive.”
“Don't write anything down, but save everything that anyone else writes down.”

Source : 1995 Advice for political survival in Washington. In the US News and World Report, 9 Jan.
“All classifications in this world lack sharp boundaries, and all transitions are gradual.”
“That more than 90 per cent of the Indian population should continue to be illiterate even after 175 years of British rule in this country is an intolerable situation which calls for immediate action.”

Source : Speech delivered at Nagpur University Convocation on 5th December 1936, "Educational Speeches" by Dr. Shyamaprasad Mookerjee, A.Mukherjee & Co. (Private) Ltd., 2 College Square, Kolkata 700 012, 1959.

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