“It's a fallacy that the president only wants to hear from you if you agree,”
Christine Todd Whitman
“Those who want to hear from you will let you hear from them.”
“[Marcelo told her,] Ma'am, I'm supposed to tell you after you see the photographs that General Sanchez wants to see you in his office. ... before I even saw the photographs, I was preparing words to say in a press conference - to be up front, to be honest about this, that an investigation is ongoing and there are some allegations of detainee abuse.”
Janis Karpinski
“A hollow voice is all I have / But this I tell you plain, / Marry come up! - you marry, Ma'am, / And I'll come up again.”
Thomas Hood
“He had a good start, ... Everything was, 'Yes, ma'am.'”
Lisa Anderson
“We plan to stay here for a while, yes ma'am.”
John Casey
“"Heat, ma'am!" I said; "it was so dreadful here, that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones”
Sydney Smith
