#predecessor

I've never been a fan of presidents who place blame on their predecessors or who accept credit for events that couldn't have been engineered so soon in their tenure. ↗

— Kathleen Parker

#been #blame #credit #engineered #events

I'm confident that, were I mayor, I would do some things differently than he has. But I think there's a world of difference between him and his immediate predecessor. ↗

— David Dinkins

#confident #difference #differently #him #his

I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men... in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided to my illustrious predecessor. ↗

— Martin Van Buren

#footsteps #i #illustrious #men #people

To this day I always insist on working out a problem from the beginning without reading up on it first, a habit that sometimes gets me into trouble but just as often helps me see things my predecessors have missed. ↗

— Robert B. Laughlin

#beginning #day #first #gets #habit

Well can I just say unlike my predecessors, Conservative and Labour, I have set up an independent body that studies whether what I'm saying is true, whether I've met the targets that I set out. ↗

— George Osborne

#conservative #i #independent #just #labour

For Obama to save himself, he should be thinking about the example of an unlikely Republican predecessor: Richard Nixon. ↗

— John Podhoretz

#example #himself #nixon #obama #predecessor

The average GOP presidential vote in these last five elections was 44.5 percent. In the last three, it was 48.1 percent. Give Romney an extra point for voter disillusionment with Obama, and a half-point for being better financed than his predecessors. It still strikes me as a path to narrow defeat. ↗

— Bill Kristol

#being #better #defeat #disillusionment #elections

No philosopher understands his predecessors until he has re-thought their thought in his own contemporary terms. ↗

— Peter Frederick Strawson

#his #own #philosopher #predecessors #terms

As for the United States' future in Afghanistan, it will be fire and hell and total defeat, God willing, as it was for their predecessors - the Soviets and, before them, the British. ↗

— Mohammed Omar

#before #british #defeat #fire #future

In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters. ↗

— Paul Gauguin

#art #done #epithet #masters #merited