"I had this notion that I could convince people who were skeptical of national Democrats to vote for me because I could bring home the bacon, or because I could find some personal pitch to them."

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Source : "Central Casting" by Jeffrey Goldberg, www.newyorker.com. May 29, 2006.

Brad Carson

#Home Quotes #People Quotes #Vote Quotes

“I think when you've been in office for a long time, you have a record, and that record is fair game.”

Source : "Martin O'Malley and Kay Bailey Hutchison on "State of the Union"". "State of the Union" with Candy Crowley, www.realclearpolitics.com. November 6, 2011.
“I've lived my career backwards - I started off huge and I've got smaller and more personal, and I'm much more comfortable now.”
“The hopelessness of the Turkish Government should make me witness with delight its being swept out of the countries which it tortures. Next to the Ottoman Government nothing can be more deplorable and blameworthy than jealousies between Greek and Slav and plans by the States already existing for appropriating other territory. Why not Macedonia for the Macedonians as well as Bulgaria for the Bulgarians and Serbia for the Serbians?”
“Let's say that when I was a little baby, and all my bones soft and malleable, I was put in a small Episcopal cruciform box and so took my shape. Then, when I broke out of the box, the way a baby chick escapes an egg, is it strange that I had the shape of a cross? Have you ever noticed that chickens are roughly egg-shaped?”
“Whatever the theologians might say about heaven being in a state of union with God, I knew it consisted of an infinite library; and eternity was simply what enabled one to read uninterruptedly for ever.”
“The closer the source of light is to a subject, the broader the beams are.”
“I will have no Parsons around me but such as drink deep, ride to Hounds and caress the Wives and Daughters of their Parishioners.A Virtuous Parson does nothing to test or exercise the Faith of his Flock.”
“An actor without techies is a naked person standing in the dark trying to emote. A techie without actors is a person with marketable skills.”

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