#asking

The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#bureaucracy #cold #cold war #elephant #grown

You know, I am mainstream America, and it really doesn't matter what party you're in. When you call your children and you say 'How are you?' - and what you are really asking is, 'Do you still have your job? And are you able to make the mortgage payment?', That resonates across the state, not across party lines. ↗

— Sharron Angle

#across #am #america #asking #call

By the time the people asking the questions are ready for the answers, the people doing the work have lost track of the questions. ↗

— Norman Ralph Augustine

#asking #by the time #doing #lost #people

I didn't respond to people thrusting microphones at me and asking me questions that were unanswerable in a sound bite. ↗

— Bill Ayers

#bite #i #me #microphones #people

You can tell five minutes into it what a girl is after, when she starts asking how much money I make or tells me, 'I wanna be an actress.' ↗

— Scott Baio

#after #asking #five #girl #how

I'm a lobbyist and had a career lobbying. The guy who gets elected or the lady who gets elected president of the United States will immediately be lobbying. They would be advocating to the Congress, they'll be lobbying our allies and our adversaries overseas. They'll be asking the business community and labor unions. ↗

— Haley Barbour

#advocating #allies #asking #business #business community

Then, all of a sudden, here I am in the Press Room in the White House and walking in with the guards, who handed me three little pieces of paper asking me to send pictures to the guards at the White House. ↗

— Majel Barrett

#asking #guards #handed #here #house

If somebody's not prepared to answer the question, you can keep asking. ↗

— Martin Bashir

#asking #keep #prepared #question #somebody

The first time I ask him, have you had your cheekbones raised, have you had your nose changed? He denied it all. I was asking him to compare his face with what it looked like years ago. ↗

— Martin Bashir

#ask #asking #changed #cheekbones #compare

People are always asking me about eskimos, but there are no eskimos in Iceland. ↗

— Bjork

#always #asking #iceland #me #people