David Fahrenthold Quotes

The point of my stories was not to defeat Trump. The point was to tell readers the facts about this man running for president. How reliable was he at keeping promises? How much moral responsibility did he feel to help those less fortunate than he? By the end of the election, I felt I'd done my job.

David Fahrenthold

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Thoreau points out clearly that civil disobedience gets its moral authority by the willingness to suffer the penalties from disobeying a law, even if you think that law is unjust.

Michael Hayden

LawThinkYouMoralAuthorityOut

Writing makes you more human.

John Updike

WritingYouMoreHumanMakes

There's certainly satire written about techies, but it's so snarky and snide and doesn't treat him as a whole person. The people I worked with at Twitter - they're very analytical, but they're also deep and thoughtful - I feel like they deserved a charismatic spokesperson.

Robin Sloan

PeopleTreatDeepFeelThoughtful

My own life changed when my father returned from his second combat tour in Vietnam. When he came home after almost a year in Army hospitals, he weighed less than half of what he did when he left. I watched the agonizing recovery, and that experience was on my mind when I was asked to come to VA.

Robert Wilkie

LifeFatherHomeExperienceMind

In my planet, fashion, I'm the only straight man.

Roberto Cavalli

ManFashionPlanetOnlyStraight

I think there's a tide that tends to carry historians back to the past.

Ron Chernow

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I think my whole career has been marked - or marred - by what people presume about me. But even that's fed back into the creativity. I'm saying that I'm about contradiction, that you can't put me into a box.

Roisin Murphy

CreativityPeopleMeSayingThink

President Obama's view of a free economy is to send your money to his friends. My vision for a free enterprise economy is to return entrepreneurship and genius and creativity to the American people!

Mitt Romney

VisionMoneyCreativityPeopleFree

I enjoy working with Melissa a great deal. We're always looking for projects to do together. I was happy to have her do the show, because she doesn't normally do episodic unless she's starring, and I was very happy with the results.

Bruce Boxleitner

GreatTogetherHappyLookingEnjoy

It's a hard thing to age a character because you can't really suddenly give someone gray hair.

Alison Bechdel

AgeCharacterHairSomeoneYouGray

All I say about severely disabled babies is that when a life is so miserable it is not worth living, then it is permissible to give it a lethal injection. These are decisions that should be taken by parents - never the state - in consultation with their doctors.

Peter Singer

LifeParentsDecisionsWorthLiving

I've come to understand that there's always something positive, even in a negative situation.

Leif Garrett

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