Mcdonnell Quotes & Sayings

I do think that it's extremely important with this character show her assuming power with a great deal of grace, and find out how to do things she won't like - the things she's called upon to do. — Mary McDonnell

It's phenomenally important to me that, if I'm going to be spending years on a project, I need to be interested in the whole thing. I'm not there to be on my own. And if I'm going to be with these people, I'd best be interested in their work. — Mary McDonnell

Certainly, the emergence of Enterprise Rent-A-Car and the Taylor family has been one of the great things that has happened in St. Louis. We are no longer headquarters for McDonnell Douglas, although the McDonnell family is still very much involved in our community. — William Henry Danforth

No president has ever been elected with unemployment over 8 percent. — Bob McDonnell

Are we a nation of guarantees or are we a nation of opportunities to achieve the American dream? — Bob McDonnell

That dot is special. That dot is where LIFE lives. And I get it, it's biased of a living organism (like me) to think that life is important and special, but I don't care!
Because stars don't care, galaxies don't care, but people do.
Undoubtedly we're something special because, as far as we can tell, we are unique. — Charlie McDonnell

I don't think the objective of an abortion clinic is to try to talk women out of having the procedure. That obviously would not be positive for their bottom line. — Bob McDonnell

I think the more we embrace the culture of life and respect life, the better that we do. — Bob McDonnell

I'm chairman of the Republican Governors Association. — Bob McDonnell

I tell you what Hispanics in Virginia tell me they want. They want access to the American dream. That's why they come here to Virginia and to America, so they want more opportunities to start small business, better schools. — Bob McDonnell

I think in Washington, D.C., a lot of people are talking down about business. — Bob McDonnell

Actors are part of a certain percentage of people on this planet who have an emotional vocabulary as a primary experience. It's as if their life is experienced emotionally and then that is translated intellectually or conceptually into the performance. — Mary McDonnell

With BSG, sci-fi is the human experience taken beyond the envelope. When I first became involved with the project, I knew that I would be able to play a human being for many years, exploring and reflecting on issues that would impact people's lives. — Mary McDonnell

In the great design of fate, there are no accidents. — Adrienne McDonnell

Anytime you have a reelection campaign against an incumbent president and you're the party out of power - on the one hand it's wide open because there's not an heir apparent - but people are also gauging how strong is that incumbent president and what are my chances. — Bob McDonnell

Like everybody, my views on many issues have changed as I have gotten older. — Bob McDonnell

The governor is Virginia's chief executive and represents the commonwealth at all times. — Bob McDonnell

Expanding Medicaid without fixing Medicaid is a terrible idea. — Bob McDonnell

I wrote my thesis on welfare policy. — Bob McDonnell

I think people are by-and-large happy with the providers that they have got now. They treasure that doctor-patient relationship. — Bob McDonnell

McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the designer of the F-15. — Thomas Friedman

Every governor's got tough choices to make. — Bob McDonnell

We never know all the facts and the more we're mindful of how we deal with people, the more opportunity we have to evolve. — Mary McDonnell

We have to get back to the beauty of just being alive in this present moment. — Mary McDonnell

The creative conquest of space will serve as a wonderful substitute for war. — James Smith McDonnell

You only live to regret the risks you didn't take. — Molly McDonnell

And do I still have that look?" he asked.
"Yes just there," she kissed his eye. "The desire to love me is still there. If you look closely you can see mine for you, my tears never washed it away. — Racquel McDonnell

For me, as an actress, one of the most essential things that I need to know is what do I want for and from the people around me in the story. — Mary McDonnell

My wife and daughters work. My campaign manager in 2005 was a working mother. I appointed 5 women to my senior staff as Attorney General. — Bob McDonnell

That moment was very important because it was political. That's what has to be done, so they struck a deal. She figures his is a well-thought-out motivation that she felt was worthy trade-off. The motivation here is survival, and she has to think like a leader. — Mary McDonnell

People want results. I call it 'results oriented conservatism,' R.O.C. because that's what people want out of government. — Bob McDonnell

The EPA is now the Employment Prevention Agency. — Bob McDonnell

SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING Judith Barrington, Writing the Memoir: From Truth to Art; Annie Dillard and Cort Conley, eds., Modern American Memoirs; Patricia Hampl, I Could Tell You Stories: Sojourns in the Land of Memory; Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life; Phillip Lopate, ed., The Art of the Personal Essay; Jane Taylor McDonnell, Living to Tell the Tale: A Guide to Writing Memoir; and William Zinsser, ed., Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir. — Vivian Gornick

Jobs are what give people a sense of fulfillment and self-reliance. — Bob McDonnell

Everything changes when a man becomes purple — Charlie McDonnell

Informed consent is required for every invasive medical procedure, from getting your ears pierced to having an abortion. — Bob McDonnell

I am all for using business - public and private - to expand healthcare coverage. — Bob McDonnell

John McDonnell is the Bear Bryant of track and field. — Frank Broyles

I'm really the candidate who has really lived his whole life in suburbia. — Bob McDonnell

I think that in a general sense, the idea of getting comfortable with the truth in life is uncomfortable. — Mary McDonnell

Besides the healthcare bill being unconstitutional and a great expansion of federal government, I think if it does not respect people's individual religious views and makes groups or individuals do things that are contrary to their deeply held beliefs, there is going to be a visceral negative reaction. — Bob McDonnell

Writing is like eating Jelly with chopsticks. You know where you want the food to go, but you just can't get it there. — Joanne McDonnell

Military families so much appreciate the love, support and prayers. — Bob McDonnell

I made a fairly bold pledge that I wanted Virginia to be the energy capital of the East Coast. — Bob McDonnell

Republican governors are leading the way in helping the private sector create new jobs, reforming government and getting our economy back on track. — Bob McDonnell

One [Big Data] challenge is how we can understand and use big data when it comes in an unstructured format. — Steven McDonnell

America is now a space-faring nation. a frontier good for millions of years. The only time remotely comparable was when Columbus discovered a whole new world. — James Smith McDonnell

The Cylons are such a frightening concept - not knowing who is real. No way. — Mary McDonnell

I love the idea of a woman being able to discover the idea of power this way, on such a scale. And I don't know about that, what it means - well, I guess I'd better, or my part's in trouble. — Mary McDonnell

It's really important for actors to feel that they're more than something for hire. — Mary McDonnell

The citizens must be certain that the governor is attending to the duties for which he was elected. — Bob McDonnell

If you know you're supported, you're going to work harder, you're going to be more focused on your mission. — Bob McDonnell

There is no question that the minority party always makes a sport of going after the governor. — Bob McDonnell

Doctors have an ethical duty to follow the practices and standards of care. — Bob McDonnell

President Obama has created at least three jobs that I know of - Bob McDonnell, Chris Christie, and Scott Brown. — Newt Gingrich

Success in business today requires real-time, mobile access to business opportunities. — Bob McDonnell

No matter what side of the spectrum you're on, you like to see your team fighting for the principle. — Bob McDonnell

Fiscal responsibility and government reform are going to be good themes for governing, well at any time, but particularly coming out of a recovery. — Bob McDonnell

I nearer than I was yesterday and further than I am today, tomorrow I'll be square one. — Racquel McDonnell

Psal had not thought of all that. He would think of it all night. The loveliest woman from the defeated Peacock longhouse would be his. Yet he did not want her. In the middle of the night, as the longhouse keened to Poh's region and one landscape blended into another, Psal lay on his wheeled bed wondering if he should rape in order to show his ability to compromise. All night, the Lesser Light flickered and Psal often found himself holding his breath. — Carole McDonnell

it was very hard to enjoy the scenery while simultaneously being terrified of colliding with it. — Caimh McDonnell

We have lost certainty and predictability in the regulatory and tax climate in America, and this is why we're recovering so slowly. — Bob McDonnell

Earl: Augh! They're trying to take the wolf off the endangered list .
Mooch: I know. But did you hear what they're putting back on the endangered list?
Earl: What?
Mooch: Empathy and compassion. — Patrick McDonnell

It is really wonderful for me to understand that there are times in life when your job, and the excellence of your job, requires to not be - have the comfort zone of being popular. — Mary McDonnell

I love to work. I love to have complexity. — Mary McDonnell

All the same stuff that happened to [Bob] McDonnell , and McDonnell got prosecuted. And he [Tim Kaine] is sitting there free and - just like Hillary [Clinton]. — Rudy Giuliani

Well, I don't know what Ron has in mind, but I do know about the arc of the show. Looking at how intuitive and instinctive Eddie and I play, that is the sort of thing that leads into sexual chemistry. I wouldn't be surprised if it emerged. — Mary McDonnell

Ron allowed us to see right away the private piece of a person about to become very public. I suspect we're going to see more of her very private world - Laura's private experience. I'm not sure yet how public she's going to be about the actions she's going to have to take. — Mary McDonnell