Douglas Wilder The first black president will be a politician who is black. – Douglas Wilder Black Quotes Politician Quotes President Quotes During the 2008 campaign, I strongly endorsed Barack Obama for president. I did so early, when many Democratic leaders – including many prominent African-American politicians – believed the safe bet was to back then-front-runner Hillary Clinton. Healthy debate has been replaced by automatic sensors that eliminate the need for actual talking during a filibuster – a la ‘Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.’ Robust debate is necessary in a democratic society. Instead, our discourse has been relegated to media spin by expert entertainers.
Gretchen Rubin Take care of difficult calls or emails as quickly as possible. Procrastinating just makes it harder; getting them done gives a big boost of relieved energy. – Gretchen Rubin
Jeff Lindsay If you look at the primitive societies that we know about, the worst thing that could have happened to you was to be captured and be turned over to the women. – Jeff Lindsay
Michael Madsen L.A. Confidential’ was written with me in mind, but Russell Crowe got the part. Go figure. – Michael Madsen
Karen Bender The word inventors have to create a new term to describe how I felt when I learned that ‘Refund’ was on the shortlist for the Frank O’Connor International Story prize – Excited, thrilled, honored, none of them quite do it. – Karen Bender
Divine I don’t live in drag… I don’t sit around in negligees and I don’t wear little Adolfo suits to lunch. Of course, if I had a couple of Bob Mackie outfits, things might be different. – Divine
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