Maxine Retirement Quotes & Sayings

Those who don't know speak...Those who really know, don't speak!!!! — Kre Kre

impossible for a bureaucrat to keep his hands clean and still serve! — Sangeeta Bahadur

Mrs. Clinton, speaking to a black church audience on Martin Luther King Day last year, did describe President George W. Bush as treating the Congress of the United States like 'a plantation,' adding in a significant tone of voice that 'you know what I mean ... '
She did not repeat this trope, for some reason, when addressing the electors of Iowa or New Hampshire. She's willing to ring the other bell, though, if it suits her. But when an actual African-American challenger comes along, she rather tends to pout and wince at his presumption (or did until recently). — Christopher Hitchens

I want to raise my kids, I want to get them through their teenage years ... I do love my work with the UN and with PSVI so if I can do more of that and be more effective I will do whatever I can. — Angelina Jolie

Our lives now are an internship for the eschaton. — Russell D. Moore

But why didn't you leave? Why didn't you take my sister and go to New York?" she would say it didn't matter, that she was lucky to have my sister and me. If I pressed hard enough, she would add, "If I'd left, you never would have been born." I never had the courage to say: But you would have been born instead. — Gloria Steinem

Before the Haitian Revolution, Africans toiling in the sugar fields of Saint-Domingue spread the story of the zombi. This was a living-dead person who had been captured by white wizards. Intellect and personality fled home, but the ghost-spirit and body remained in the land of the dead, working at the will of the sorcerers-planters. Any slave could be a zombi..." - The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism — Edward E. Baptist

Strange dream, that gives a dead man leave — William Shakespeare

My ambition is to do what I like and to do good things that I might not have done before. — Martin Freeman