"One cannot underestimate how widely admired Tom Daschle is in Washington for his integrity."

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Source : "Daschle withdraws as HHS nominee", www.cnn.com. February 3, 2009.

David Gergen

#Integrity Quotes #Underestimate Quotes

“They fight so much for two reasons. One is they don't want to be blamed for breaking the spending caps. And secondly, they don't want to be blamed for spending the Social Security surplus on non-Social Security problems.”
“The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket; and the glorious uncertainty of it is of mair use to the professors than the justice of it.”

Source : Love a la Mode act 2, sc. 1 (1759)
“Elegance? It may seem odd to non-scientists, but there is an aesthetic in software as there is in every other area of intellectual endeavour. Truly great programmers are like great poets or great mathematicians - they can achieve in a few lines what lesser mortals can only approach in three volumes”
“I am pretty health-conscious, so when my girlfriend and/or I make dinner--no, I don't have a cook!--we choose the healthier options: lean meats, steamed veggies, fish, etc. Of course, there are always those cravings for the "bad foods" that I do give in to once in a while!”
“When you do a movie in the studio system, there's a committee. A committee of six or seven people you answer to. There's two or three producers, a studio executive and one or two people above that studio executive.”
“I don't think I've ever had love at first sight. I am somebody who starts to do something, and I keep on doing it without knowing if I like it or not. At some point I realize, "You know, I really like this," and it could be music; it could be anything. I like to embrace life like that.”
“Nothing indicates the soundness of a man's judgment so much as knowing how to choose between two disadvantages.”
“I just try to live a really simple, natural life, because obviously, life has an impact on your voice.”

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