#after

Mandates are rarely won on election night. They are earned after Inauguration Day by leaders who spend their political capital wisely, taking advantage of events without overreaching. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#after #capital #day #earned #election

Obama does not need to worry as much as past Democratic presidents about being labeled soft on national security - not after giving the order that led to the assassination of Osama bin Laden. No, his biggest concern is being labeled tone deaf on joblessness and debt. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#after #assassination #being #biggest #bin

Say what you want to say about the rest of his presidency, including his tone-deaf response to Katrina and a war waged in Iraq on false pretenses, Bush connected with Americans in the aftermath of 9/11 because he looked as frail and unforgiving as we felt. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#aftermath #because #bush #connected #false

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#after #bad #bad habits #determined #good

My parents said sticks and stones will break your bones but names will never hurt you. But I always felt a sense of exhilaration after a fight; it was the names that really hurt me. ↗

— Michael Franti

#always #bones #break #exhilaration #felt

Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the power. ↗

— Garet Garrett

#did #going #got #greatest #had

I'll tell you the truth: I had a double brandy before the game but, before, it used to be four bottles of whisky. Not any more. I was fine. I had a glass of wine after the game. But it was just a mouthful. ↗

— Paul Gascoigne

#any #before #bottles #brandy #double

How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly! ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#comes #easy #evil #how #judge

Grown men have been seen fleeing after reading the menu posted outside. ↗

— William E. Geist

#been #fleeing #grown #grown men #men

After I am dead, the boy will ruin himself in twelve months. ↗

— King George V

#am #boy #dead #himself #i