"The way to have power is to take it."

-- Boss Tweed

#Political Quotes #Way Quotes

“Pedigree matters: if you break your shoulder trying to open a door, it's much harder to play the game once you get in the room.”
“We who have lived before railways were made belong to another world. It was only yesterday, but what a gulf between now and then! Then was the old world. Stage-coaches, more or less swift, riding-horses, pack-horses, highwaymen, knights in armor, Norman invaders, Roman legions, Druids, Ancient Britons painted blue, and so forth -- all these belong to the old period. But your railroad starts the new era, and we of a certain age belong to the new time and the old one. We who lived before railways, and survive out of the ancient world, are like Father Noah and his family out of the Ark.”
“As a first-time director in America, I feel I've been very fortunate.”
“If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.”

Source : As quoted in "Perfecting Private Practice" by Joan Neehall-Davidson, (p. 95), 2004.
“We are all so afraid, we are all so alone, we all so need from the outside the assurance of our own worthiness to exist.”
“Some books seem like a key to unfamiliar rooms in oneâ€™s own castle.”
“I love paper. A nice thick pile of it and a pencil, and I'm content.”
“Im a child of the Civil Rights Movement.”

Source : "On Movies, Money & Politics". Interview with Peter Biskind, www.thenation.com. March 18, 1999.

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