#elect

I learned that I never really know the true story of my guests' lives, that I have to content myself with knowing that when I'm interviewing somebody, I'm getting a combination of fact and truth and self-mythology and self-delusion and selective memory and faulty memory. ↗

— Terry Gross

#content #fact #faulty #getting #guests

When Bush first got elected, the very first time there was talk of going to war with Iraq, the mainstream media gave his position total credibility. I didn't get it then, and I don't get it now. ↗

— Ed Harris

#credibility #elected #first #first time #gave

Had I become a priest, the sermons would've been electric! ↗

— Johnny Vegas

#been #electric #had #i #priest

The great disadvantage of our present electoral system is that it freezes the pattern of politics, and holds together the incompatible because everyone assumes that if a party splits it will be electorally slaughtered. ↗

— Roy Jenkins

#because #disadvantage #electoral #everyone #freezes

We must not expect a full-scale peaceful revolution every time a Labour Government is elected. ↗

— Roy Jenkins

#every #every time #expect #full-scale #government

In 1980, a nation in need of change selected Ronald Reagan to restore the shine to a tarnished America. ↗

— William L. Jenkins

#change #nation #need #reagan #restore

Do we elect a man because of what he stands for, because of where he stands on the issues, because how he makes the nation feel? ↗

— Peter Jennings

#elect #feel #how #issues #makes

There was a president imposed by Syria. Our battle... is to have a Lebanese president that we elect. ↗