“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
“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
“[Abbas laid the cornerstone for a new Arafat memorial, even as he acknowledged that his predecessor had no wish for a grandiose building.] He had no dreams of having a palace in Palestine but only to have a grave in Jerusalem, ... God willing, he will be buried in Jerusalem.”
Mahmoud Abbas
“He's blazing a trail. He's taking a more public role in warning about these issues than his predecessors have.”
Robert Bixby
“It felt somehow unsavory to begin a tenure by attacking our predecessors,”
Bill Keller
