#appoint

My concern was whether I could do the job of a justice well enough to convince the nation that my appointment was the right move. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#concern #convince #could #enough #i

What was a problem was the excessive amount of media attention to the appointment of the first woman and everything she did. Everywhere that Sandra went, the press was sure to go. And that got tiresome; it was stressful. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#appointment #attention #did #everything #everywhere

If a book I've committed myself to review turns out to be 'disappointing' I make an effort to present it objectively to the reader, including a good number of excerpts from the text, so that the reader might form his or her own opinion independent of my own. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#committed #disappointing #effort #form #good

What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power. ↗

— William S. Paley

#disappointments #engage #follies #history #power

The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed. ↗

— Claude Pepper

#been #forgetting #lot #make #mistake

If you see a snake, just kill it - don't appoint a committee on snakes. ↗

— Ross Perot

#committee #just #kill #see #snake

Even the Congressional Budget Office and the Social Security trustees appointed by the president say that Social Security is financially sound, without any changes for the next 40 to 50 years. ↗

— James Roosevelt

#appointed #budget #changes #congressional #even

The restaurant chefs in Spain are breaking ground, but in terms of the everyday cooking in Spain I still hear people coming back and saying they were disappointed. I think it's because they're expecting the chef stuff. ↗

— Sally Schneider

#because #breaking #chef #chefs #coming

It is with great disappointment that I call on Representative Anthony Weiner to resign. The behavior he has exhibited is indefensible and Representative Weiner's continued service in Congress is untenable. ↗

— Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#behavior #call #congress #continued #disappointment

I suppose I was very disappointed that I was injured during training for Korea. In fact, I had an argument with a grenade and it won, and consequently I was forced to come back to Australia for twelve months. ↗

— Peter Scott

#australia #back #come #consequently #disappointed