“He's been a superb predecessor, and he's been very supportive of this rabbinic transition,”
Eric Hoffman
“I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well.”
George W. Bush
“Don't speak ill of your predecessors or successors. You didn't walk in their shoes.”
Donald Rumsfeld
“In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters.”
Paul Gauguin
“He that is pushing his predecessors into the gulf of obscurity, cannot but sometimes suspect, that he must himself sink in like manner, and, as he stands upon the same precipice, be swept away with the same violence”
Samuel Johnson
“You'd like Kafka, one of my predecessors.”
Anna Paquin
“More than any of his predecessors, he has gone public with every issue under the sun. I'm not sure there's a right answer, but I think it's worth talking about in a public forum what ought to be boundaries of the Fed governors' comments.”
Tom Schlesinger
