#be

It's always better to deliver the news yourself rather than allow your boss to be surprised. ↗

— Mary Cheney

#always #better #boss #deliver #news

A little tough talk in the midst of a campaign or as part of a presidential debate cannot obscure a record of 30 years of being on the wrong side of defense issues. ↗

— Dick Cheney

#campaign #cannot #debate #defense #issues

We had come here to have a break from thoughts and the hard work that came with the constant interaction with idiots. Or at least people we considered idiots because they were not mind readers and we had to, patiently, use polite words to explain things that we were thinking when really inside we were fighting the urge to take their heads in our hands and softly and repeatedly thud their foreheads off the wall. ↗

— Cecelia Ahern

#life

I think the record speaks for itself. These are two individuals who have been for the war when the headlines were good and against it when their poll ratings were bad. ↗

— Dick Cheney

#bad #been #good #headlines #i

One of the reasons the deficit got as big as it did, frankly, was because of the economic slowdown, the fall-off in deficits, the terrorist attacks. A significant chunk was taken out of the economy by what happened after the attacks of 9/11. ↗

— Dick Cheney

#attacks #because #big #chunk #deficit

Westerners know the difference between a talker and the real deal. If Rick Perry wasn't right to be governor of Texas, why should he be president? ↗

— Dick Cheney

#deal #difference #governor #know #perry

I soon discovered, after I became chairman of the NEH, that, for a number of academics, the truth was not merely irrelevant - it no longer existed. ↗

— Lynne Cheney

#after #became #chairman #discovered #existed

'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.' ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#country #desperate #drunk #ever #except

Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#brow #dissolves #fairest #flying #hours

I think it's important to remember that Christianity was based in love and tolerance and forgiveness and acceptance. ↗

— Kristin Chenoweth

#based #christianity #forgiveness #i #i think