"He's nice enough not to want to be associated with a nasty remark but not nice enough not to make it. Lacking the courage of one's nastiness does not make one nice."

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Source : "Is Bush Nice? A Contrarian View" by Michael Kinsley, www.cnn.com. July 16, 1990.

Michael Kinsley

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“I'm very proud to be the first winner of the Indian Grand Prix, but then on the other hand we recently lost two of our mates. I didn't know Dan Wheldon, but he was big in motorsport, and then this year I got to know Marco Simoncelli, so our thoughts are with them at the moment.”
“The gay community just recognizes what their closets are and we straight have to spend years trying to figure out which closet we are trapped in.”
“There is oil in the Middle East there is rare earth in China.”
“Most of the time I'm not even working, I'm just helping people, because I feel that I am too lucky. If there really is a god, then he really looks after me. All these years he's taken care of me, my career keeps getting better and better. Whatever I want just seems to come. And it keeps coming. So I promised myself that I have to pay for this, payback society. So this is why I started my Jackie Chan Foundation to help children and sick kids and people in hospitals.”
“HBO is really famous for hiring good people and staying out of their way until they ask for help, or need it. And that reputation is earned.”
“I often start writing in order to excite an expansive emotion.”
“There's some good news, too, and the good news is that the players [finally] have become more aware of the fact that we [in golf] need sponsors, and we need the good will that is created by the players being, let's say, cooperative with the sponsors - meaning friendly.”
“What we're also doing is helping police forces in terms of issues like procurement and IT, so that savings can be made in those areas which I think is the sort of thing that everybody is going to want us to be doing”

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