Steve Rushin We can project just about anything we want onto NFL owners – one of them is named Arthur Blank, for heaven’s sake. He’s a walking Mad Lib, just waiting for us to complete him. – Steve Rushin
Richard Pryor I’m for human lib, the liberation of all people, not just black people or female people or gay people. – Richard Pryor
Patti Harrison Coming out of ‘Shrill,’ depending on who’s directing, they’ll let you ad lib sometimes, you can pitch ideas if you have them. – Patti Harrison
Nick Clegg I don’t even pretend we can occupy the Lib Dem holier-than-thou, hands-entirely-clean-and-entirely-empty-type stance. No, we are getting our hands dirty, and inevitably and totally understandably we are being accused of being just like any other politicians. – Nick Clegg
Neal Boortz I’m a news junkie. I generally ad lib it. I find a story I want to key off on, open the mic, drag it in the Dropbox, and they pull it out the next morning. – Neal Boortz
Michael Portillo If the Tories and Lib Dems fought together, they’d keep their ministerial offices and limousines, and continue to do the right things for the U.K. But too many backbenchers in both parties yearn for Opposition, preferring hallucinogenic ideological purity and political irrelevance to the mucky reality of governing. – Michael Portillo
Michael Ashcroft In the 1990s, the Lib Dems won a string of byelections at the expense of struggling Conservative governments. Christchurch, Ribble Valley and Eastbourne went straight back to the Tories at the next general election, but the Lib Dems held their later byelection gains – Eastleigh, Newbury and Romsey – in at least two subsequent general elections. – Michael Ashcroft
Michael Ashcroft At 10 A.M. on the Friday after the election in 2010, David Cameron’s team met in his room at the Westminster Bridge Park Plaza Hotel. Cameron was clear that, unable to form a majority government, they had to begin talks with the Lib Dems about forming a coalition. But in a rare example of strategic discord, George Osborne disagreed. – Michael Ashcroft
Mahalia Jackson I don’t worry too much about the script, I just ad lib, like Pearl Bailey. – Mahalia Jackson
Lucy Powell Although my seat is a contest between Labour and the Lib Dems, it could well make the difference between a Labour and a Tory government at the next election. In terms of international development, this choice is a very clear one. – Lucy Powell
Lucy Powell What the Lib Dems have failed to do is offer any meaningful agenda for government or for power. – Lucy Powell
Lucy Powell The Tories and the Lib Dems talk about social mobility, but, short of winning the lottery, the only way to guarantee young people from all backgrounds the opportunity to do better and to raise aspirations is through education. – Lucy Powell
