#ted

Everyone says Francois Mitterrand had huge charisma. But before he was president they used to call him badly dressed, old, archaic and say he knew nothing about the economy... until the day he was elected. It's called universal suffrage. When you're elected, you become the person that embodies France. ↗

— Francois Hollande

#archaic #badly #become #before #call

In addition to myself and a number of others, President Clinton talked about the deficit and the debt issue. And he pointed out, really, what I pointed out, which is that when he left office, we actually had projected surpluses for a long period of time, because when he put together his economic plan, he did it in a balanced way. ↗

— Chris Van Hollen

#actually #addition #balanced #because #clinton

It was stunning actually, because what you would hope for from our national leaders is some reflection, some understanding that the situation that we encountered in Iraq was not what we expected, that it was not what he said it would be. ↗

— Chris Van Hollen

#because #encountered #expected #hope #iraq

Acting is a very limited form of expression and those who take it seriously are very limited people. I take it seriously. ↗

— Judy Holliday

#expression #form #i #limited #people

I feel Motown really exploited me. ↗

— Brenda Holloway

#feel #i #i feel #me #motown

Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped. ↗

— Larry Holmes

#bigger #busted #doctors #fight #fighters

A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#blow #both #cause #character #commonly

I didn't want much. I wanted much more. In fact, I wanted everything. ↗

— Rupert Holmes

#fact #i #in fact #more #much

In all my years of performing, no audience member has ever actually assaulted me. I consider this to be the singular triumph of my performing career. ↗

— Rupert Holmes

#assaulted #audience #audience member #career #consider

It was irritating to have one's physical shortcomings pointed out quite so plainly twice in one evening, once by a beautiful girl and once by a dying badger. ↗

— Tom Holt

#beautiful #beautiful girl #dying #evening #girl