#owe

The vice president had a bargaining asset, however, that no ordinary person has: He was next in line to the presidency. I saw no chance that he would resign first, then take his chances on trial, conviction, and jail. ↗

— Elliot Richardson

#bargaining #chance #chances #conviction #first

I don't give Hollywood the power to limit me. Only God can limit me. ↗

— Ving Rhames

#god #hollywood #i #limit #me

Well, I have an interest in power. I have an interest in people who find themselves in the position to exercise absolute power. ↗

— Boyd Rice

#absolute power #exercise #find #i #interest

The duty of responsibility placed on any MP is one of the greatest honours that can be bestowed and I for one don't believe the Conservative Party would abuse that trust by selecting someone who did not have the goods to do the job, just for the sake of media coverage. ↗

— Adam Rickitt

#any #believe #bestowed #conservative #conservative party

You have to enable and empower people to make decisions independent of you. As I've learned, each person on a team is an extension of your leadership; if they feel empowered by you they will magnify your power to lead. ↗

— Tom Ridge

#each #empower #empowered #enable #extension

We have also set up for them an edifying project for a continuous mitigation of their own tyranny, ascribing to them an unshakeable faith in the triumph of virtue, as well as in the moral justification of their crimes. These are the theories of well-meaning children who see everything in black or white, dream of nothing but angels or demons, and have no idea of the incredible number of hypocritical masks of every color and shape and size which men use to conceal their features when they have passed the age of devotion to ideals and have abandoned themselves unrestrainedly to their egotistic desires ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

#hypocrisy #mankind #power #age

I had something I was trying to say and sometimes the message is an easy transmission and sometimes it's a difficult one but I love the power of saying it so I'm gonna do it whether it's hard or easy. ↗

— Faith Ringgold

#easy #gonna #had #hard #i

About two months into the Whisky, I borrowed some money and rented a remote recording truck. ↗

— Johnny Rivers

#borrowed #i #into #money #months

There are stories still in existence that I wrote when I was five. However, I did not get published until I was seven. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#existence #five #get #however #i

I think it's a good thing to have a lot of voices in the media, and I think, you know, let all flowers bloom. ↗

— Cokie Roberts

#bloom #flowers #good #good thing #i