"The campaigns of Steve Forbes, Pat Buchanan, Ross Perot, and John McCain all outperformed expectations on their support from independent voters. They made no effort to shy away from ideology, but conveyed to voters that their policies were driven by principle, not party talking points."

-- John Sununu

#Party Quotes #Independent Quotes #Talking Quotes

“There is nothing selfish about enjoying yourself. In fact, as wise people have long said and psychologists have since discovered, happiness makes people less self-focused and more altruistic.”
“Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.”

Source : "Aphorisms". Book by F. H. Bradley, no. 94, 1930.
“The care of children ..is infinitely better left to the best trained practitioners of both sexes who have chosen it as a vocation...[This] would further undermine family structure while contributing to the freedom of women.”
“I just don't like to drive. I'm not a bad driver, I just don't like to drive.”
“The politer the society, the greater the lies it requires.”

Source : Lincoln Steffens (1936). “Lincoln Steffens speaking”
“I received a phone call from the chief executive of my principal sponsor [Marlboro], who actually told me that it would be in the interests of the sport if I started to lose races. Which, I mean, just blew my mind.”

Source : Source: www.caranddriver.com
“A gold standard is to the moochers and looters in government what sunlight and garlic are to vampires.”
“During my time in prison, I told myself that I wanted to be a part of the solution and not the problem.”

Source : "The Impossible, Inevitable Redemption of Michael Vick" by Will Leitch, www.gq.com. August 18, 2011.

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