“[But Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon said that last week's breakthroughs were less the result of shrewd parliamentary maneuvering than of simple arithmetic: GOP majorities in the House and the Senate, combined with a Republican in the White House.] Elections matter, ... When you control all three branches of government, you've got a lot to work with to drive your agenda.”
Ron Wyden
“We shouldn't have to be burdened with all the technicalities that come up from time to time with shrewd, smart lawyers interpreting what the laws or what the Constitution may or may not say.”
Dan Quayle
“A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.”
Charles Horton Cooley
“By reading the characteristic features of any man's castles in the air you can make a shrewd guess as to his underlying desires which are frustrated.”
John Dewey
“The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion-these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness.”
Jerome Bruner
“He would always push hard and go to the limit of what he could do. He was a shrewd trader; maybe sometimes he may have been too shrewd.”
George Mitchell
“Dahl was a very shrewd cookie. He was an expedient writer who would use anything to make an impact in a book. He saw what worked; his books are full of effects and good scenes. In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory , there are fantastic scenes of demolishing this person, getting rid of that person - all very high-powered stuff.”
Peter Hunt
