"For example, I was privileged to be working at the White House under the Clinton administration and had not finished my Ph.D., and I thought I was the cat's meow."

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Source : "How Peter Orszag's Budget Team Makes America Work" by John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. February 1, 2010.

Peter R. Orszag

#Cat Quotes #White Quotes #House Quotes

“Science demands from a man all his life. If you had two lives that would not be enough for you. Be passionate in your work and in your searching.”
“We must breathe time as fishes breathe water.”

Source : Denise Levertov, Paul A. Lacey (2002). “Selected Poems”, p.161, New Directions Publishing
“By nature servile, people attempt at first glance to find signs of good breeding in the appearance of those who occupy more exalted stations.”
“Let me tell you what the Tea Party stands for. It stands for the fact that we are taxed enough already.”
“There is no international problem that can be addressed or solved without the engagement and leadership of the United States and everybody in the world knows that, its just fact of life. So sometimes I think we could conduct ourselves with a little more humility.”
“But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?”
“It was sad leaving the BBC; not quite like being divorced, but you don't leave after a period stretching from 1960 to 1999 without feeling a certain number of pangs.”

Source : Interview With Jim White, www.theguardian.com. August 5, 2001.
“Once you start describing nothingness, you end up with somethingness.”

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