(28 quotes found)
“Don't speak ill of your predecessors or successors. You didn't walk in their shoes.”
Donald Rumsfeld
“Queen Victoria - this flabby, fat, flatulent looking scion and successor of the most ignoble line of Royal Georges - Her chief claim to the remembrance of posterity will be that she has the means of afflicting the English people with a most prolific”
John Norton
“Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.”
Abraham Lincoln
“The waiters were kind of suspicious of me when I started here in September 2004. I was the successor to a Hungarian restaurant manager and I saw people wondering what this Italian could do so much better than the previous manager? But now they trust me and I trust them.”
Andrea Colla
“So if you want to call him a successor you may call him a successor. But he came to the same conclusion - that to be a Jewish, democratic, independent state we have to separate.”
Yitzhak Rabin
“The court will be in an extremely unsettled and uncertain situation until Justice O'Connor's successor is confirmed and seated, ... No one -- including the justices themselves -- will know for sure whether the nine justices who hear a case will be the same nine who will decide it.”
David Garrow
“Nobody talked about women as successors [to male anchors] for ages. To have a solo female anchor of the evening news is a milestone, there's no question about it. ... It's crazy at this time in our history, but there it is.”
Cokie Roberts
“The court will be in an extremely unsettled and uncertain situation until Justice O'Connor's successor is confirmed and seated. No one — including the justices themselves — will know for sure whether the nine justices who hear a case will be the same nine who will decide it.”
“I think [Fed Chairman Alan] Greenspan owes it to his successor and financial markets to stand firm on inflation amidst rising inflation expectations by hiking and largely sticking with the previous statement rather than catering to politicians and any pro-growth inclinations by either pausing or hiking and issuing a dovish statement,”
David Gilmore
“There's no way that that would have been discovered by normal international inspections. I couldn't have done it. My successors couldn't have done it.”
David Kay
