Quotes
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- I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.
- To those waiting with bated breath for that favourite media catchphrase, the U-turn, I have only one thing to say: You turn if you want to. The lady’s not for turning
- I know CNN has taken some knocks lately but the fact is, I admire their commitment to covering all sides of the story, just in case one of them happens to be accurate.
- Radicalization does not happen to young people with a strong grounding in the American Muslim mainstream; increasingly, it happens online, and sometimes abroad, among the isolated and disaffected.
- Judging by today’s young people that I encounter when I go to schools to speak, we are in for a better tomorrow. They listen. They are very perceptive. They take it to heart.
- I have no faith in their [the Koch Brothers] belief in the importance of a free and robust watchdog press. Frankly, such a press seems antithetical to their goals and harmful to their influence in the political process.
- Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience.
- That #WHCD [White House Correspondents Dinner] was pathetic. The rest of America is out there working our asses off while these DC assclowns throw themselves a #nerdprom.
- Some in this room even accused the president of being distant and aloof. When I asked the president about that earlier, he said, ‘Oh,’ and walked away.” Conan O'Brien, White House Correspondents Dinner, April 27, 2013.
- I'm not sure exactly why I chase storms. Perhaps it's to witness the incredible beauty of what Mother Nature can create.
- I will continue to do everything I can to advance our conservative constitutional principles that have served as the bedrock for who we are as a nation.
- The truth [is] that our nation endures because it has always been home to men and women who are willing to give their all, and lay down their very lives, to preserve and protect this land that we love.