Dallek Office Quotes & Sayings

William Henry Harrison, who died of pneumonia in April of 1841, after only one month in office, was the first Chief Executive to hide his physical frailties. — Robert Dallek

Presidential aspirants reach for the highest office to satisfy some yearning for greatness or even immortality. — Robert Dallek

Ask God's blessings on your work but don't ask Him to do it for you. — Flora Robson

How Obama approaches judicial selection - and how Republicans respond - now becomes an important story and will remain so until the Senate shuts down judicial confirmations, probably in the summer of 2016 if Senate custom in presidential-election years is followed. — Terry Eastland

The unique eludes us; yet we remain faithful to the ideal of it; and in spite of sense and of our merely abstract thinking, it becomes for us the most real thing in the actual world, although for us it is the elusive goal of an infinite quest. — Josiah Royce

Caterpillars can fly, if they just lighten up. — Scott J. Simmerman Ph.D.

Women have invented nothing in all that, except the men who were born as male babies and grew up to be men big enough to be killed fighting. — Janet Flanner

If you are looking for true happiness, you have to change your level of consciousness and deepness of awareness. — Debasish Mridha

You see, fears will arise that prevent you from doing as He asks - proclaiming the gospel, reaching out to those in need, and submitting to His will. But the fear of the Lord - your respect for Him - should motivate you to obey Him anyway. — Charles F. Stanley

I think I'm learning
that sometimes the bravest thing is not to face the world,
but to turn away from it. — Charlotte Eriksson

Wealth is so concentrated that a large segment of society is virtually unaware of its existence. — Thomas Piketty

Truth leads to Freedom, yet freedom does not necessarily lead to truth. — Marvin Olasky

When I speak of a religion of one's own, I'm not talking about a selfish, ego-centered, loosely patched together spiritual concoction. I'm recommending a courageous, deep-seated, fate-driven, informed, and intelligent life that has sublime and transcendent dimension. It can be shared in a community. It can be accomplished inside or outside a traditional religious organization. It is suitable for pious members of a religious group and for agnostics and atheists. To be religious even in a personal way, you have to wake up and find your own portals to wonder and transcendence. — Thomas Moore

Oh my God. It is your nookie box. How many times have you had sex on that blanket?"
"Never, you sicko. I make them stand."
"Asshole. — J.A. Huss

At the end of their first years, there are few people who would have predicted that Truman would be elected in 1948 or that Reagan would get a second term. It's always premature to make some kind of categorical judgment after the first year in office. — Robert Dallek

If you work around at-risk teen students, actually tell them you love them and have faith in their success. No one tells them that. No one. — Ace Antonio Hall

From the moment he took office in January of 1961, Kennedy had been eager to settle the Cuban problem without overt military action by the United States. — Robert Dallek

The situation of having to belong to a state to which one does not wish is no less onerous if it is the result of an election than if one must endure it as the consequence of a military conquest. — Ludwig Von Mises

Despite all the public hand-wringing about negative advertising, political veterans will tell you that it persists because, more often than not, it works. But tearing down the other guy has another attraction: It can be a substitute for building much of a case for what the mudslinger will do once in office. — Robert Dallek