#privilege

Every president since George Washington has taken executive privilege seriously. Every Republican president has. ↗

— Jacob Lew

#executive #george #george washington #president #privilege

For generations, people have come to U.S. shores to seek opportunity. It's what my grandfather did a century ago, when he came to Seattle, and worked as a houseboy just one mile from the Washington State governor's mansion that I was privileged to inhabit for eight years. ↗

— Gary Locke

#came #century #come #did #eight

I therefore set to work, and after two and a half years of not inconsiderable labour I now have the privilege and the satisfaction of accompanying the early volumes of the series with this preface. ↗

— James Loeb

#after #early #half #i #inconsiderable

It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#does #genius #grows #life #never

It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine. ↗

— Anne Sullivan Macy

#feeble #first #growth #living #mind

But the privileges that one has enjoyed and exploited can sometimes turn against you: nobody thinks of you as a director, you are always an actress. ↗

— Sophie Marceau

#against #always #director #enjoyed #exploited

I'm going to continue doing my thing and work my butt off to add value for shareholders and as long as they and the board see fit to keep me in this role, I feel enormously privileged to serve. ↗

— Andrew Mason

#board #continue #doing #enormously #feel

It is better to lose everything you have to keep the balance of justice level, than to live a life of petty privilege devoid of true freedom. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#better #devoid #everything #freedom #justice

I feel like I have the fortune of privilege, particularly as it relates to my children. ↗

— Demi Moore

#feel #fortune #i #i feel #i feel like

In the long run, Women's Liberation will of course free men-but in the short run it's going to COST men a lot of privilege, which no one gives up willingly or easily. ↗

— Robin Morgan

#course #easily #free #free men #gives