(20 quotes found)
“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
“If he found out I was sleeping, he'd call the local newspaper, ... That's what he did to my predecessor.”
David Gunn
“When they were refurbishing buildings, they had no compunction about taking statues of a predecessor and burying them.”
Peter Brand
“You'd like Kafka, one of my predecessors.”
Anna Paquin
“President Obama started with a much weaker economy than I did...No president...Not me, not any of my predecessors, no one could have fully repaired all the damage that he found in just 4 years.”
Bill Clinton
“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 been a superb predecessor, and he's been very supportive of this rabbinic transition,”
Eric Hoffman
