“When they were refurbishing buildings, they had no compunction about taking statues of a predecessor and burying them.”
Peter Brand
“When you compare him with his predecessor, who took the Vatican by storm and the world by storm, this is a much more low-key papacy to date.”
Chester Gillis
“He's blazing a trail. He's taking a more public role in warning about these issues than his predecessors have.”
Robert Bixby
“[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
“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
