"I think I did everything possible known to any mayor in the country as it relates to saving lives."

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Source : Interview with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. September 11, 2005.

#Country Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Saving Quotes

“Suppose within each book there is another book, and within every letter on every page another volume constantly unfolding; but these volumes take no space on the desk. Suppose knowledge could be reduced to a quintessence, held within a picture, a sign, held within a place which is no place. Suppose the human skull were to become capacious, spaces opening inside it, humming chambers like beehives.”
“Stephanie Izard. She is extremely talented but super-humble at the same time. And she was the first female Top Chef. I remember cheering her on when she competed. At that time I just started in my culinary career. Watching her cook was very inspiring.”
“These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people, and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel.”
“Counting in octal is just likst counting in decimal--if you don't use your thumbs.”
“I'll never stop working. I want to die in the saddle. A day is wasted for me if I haven't done something even mildly creative.”
“I wasn't being critical of myself in the way I can normally be, and I was letting myself follow through with stuff. It was like a prolonged spontaneity.”
“Lyndon Johnson, as majority leader of the United States Senate, he made the Senate work”
“The reason why we find ourselves in a position of impotency is not because the enemy has sent men to invade our shores, but rather because of the traitorous actions of those who have had all the benefits that the wealthiest nation on earth has had to offer - the finest homes, the finest college educations, and the finest jobs in Government we can give.”

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