how do you like them apples?

take the day by the throat and shake it.

"Never trust people who smile constantly. They're either selling something or not very bright."

– Laurell K. Hamilton [born 1963]

his dad was a Nazi

 

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capacity

 

"Who would make a better President than Donald Trump? Anyone. I take the subway. When the doors open, the next person who gets on would be a better President than Trump. And that's true even if that person is in a stroller."
- Fran Lebowitz

party

 

"If you're a leader without a following, you're just a guy out for a walk."
- John Boehner [born 1949]

exit advice

 

"There's nothing more important than a good recording system."
- L.B.J. to then President-elect Richard Nixon

spinning on one foot

"Whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should."
- Pierre Elliot Trudeau [1919- 2000] quoting Max Ehrmann's [1872-1945] "Desiderata" after a failed election

on philandering

"He's a hard dog to keep on the porch."
- Attributed by Bill Maher [born 1956] to Hillary Clinton [born 1947]

on Centrism

"The middle is where both sides shoot at you."
- Margaret Atwood [born 1939]

unforeseen consequences

"Johannes Gutenberg [c.1400-1468] never intended to convert the pious, obedient European peasant into a literate political rebel, but that is one of the main things his achieved."

youngest person to become president of the United States

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”

– Theodore Roosevelt [1858-1919]

Power restricted

Due to Oliver Cromwell[ [1599-1658] and the Glorious Revolution [1688-89], where the people and Parliament now forever reigned supreme, William [1650-1702] and Mary [1662-1694] became the first in a line extending to this day of monarchial figure heads with limited powers to rule Britannia. 

on prognostication

 

motivation

"Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem."
- Abraham Lincoln [1809-1865]

Indian politician

“There are two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group. There is less competition there.”
– Indira Gandhi

on humanism

“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”

—Robert F. Kennedy

dog whistle

Only heard by a select, special audience.

the king is dead, long live the king

"If you kick the king, you better kill him."
- John Dean

molecular dissembling

"I'm a product of my choices, not a victim of my circumstances."
- Kellyanne Conway