#ash

Most political journalists come to Washington because they're snappy writers, big thinkers, or news breakers. Me? My ticket to the big leagues had little to do with talent. It was mostly about the governor I was covering, Bill Clinton. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#because #big #big leagues #bill #bill clinton

One of Obama's most impressive attributes is his quiet confidence: Voters sense that he is comfortable in his own skin, a dedicated father and friend who won't waste time with the phony rituals of Washington. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#comfortable #confidence #dedicated #father #friend

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is the most influential woman in Washington - for what she has accomplished and for what she may yet do: win the presidency. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#clinton #hillary #influential #may #most

People who don't like me talk about it as though I'm trash because I have tattoos. I find that insane because it's 2008, not the 1950s. Tattoos aren't limited to sailors. It's a form of art I find beautiful. I love it. ↗

— Megan Fox

#art #beautiful #because #find #form

I feel intimidated by fashion. ↗

— Megan Fox

#feel #i #i feel #intimidated

I don't mean to be bashful, but I was. ↗

— Willie Mays

#i #mean

It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion. ↗

— Anatole France

#act #fashion #human #human nature #nature

It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit. ↗

— Anatole France

#cash #credit #only #pay #poor

The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority. ↗

— Marie de France

#authority #dead #divers #down #fashions

As you may recall, Truman was extremely unpopular when he finally left Washington in 1953, thanks largely to the Korean War. Today, however, he is thought to have been a solidly good president, a 'Near Great' even, in the terminology of those surveys of historians they do every now and then. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#even #every #extremely #finally #good