"It was very constraining, much more than I ever would have thought, to run for governor."

-- Christine Gregoire

#Running Quotes

“To do right is wonderful. To teach others to do right is even more wonderful--and much easier.”
“The only way to get ahead is to find errors in conventional wisdom.”
“I noticed that all the prayers I used to offer to God, and all the prayers I now offer to Joe Pesci, are being answered at about the same fifty percent rate. Half the time I get what I want, half the time I don't...Same as the four-leaf clover and the horseshoe...same as the voodoo lady who tells you your fortune by squeezing the goat's testicles. It's all the same...so just pick your superstition, sit back, make a wish, and enjoy yourself...”
“A lot of Republicans are white Christians, but the Republican Party is reaching out to Hispanics, and reaching out to blacks, and reaching out to Asians.”
“We know that behind every image revealed there is another image more faithful to reality, and in the back of that image there is another, and yet another behind the last one, and so on, up to the true image of that absolute, mysterious reality that no one will ever see.”
“At length the man perceives it die away, And fade into the light of common day.”
“The first inventions of commerce are, like those of all other arts, cunning and short-sighted.”
“In a war, you must hate somebody or love somebody; you must have a position or you cannot stand what goes on”

Source : "The Hubris and Despair of War Journalism" by Susie Linfield, www.guernicamag.com. June 15, 2012.

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