Political Appointment Quotes & Sayings

the American system of checks and balances disperses federal lawmaking authority among multiple, overlapping political forums. As a result, federal policymaking power is shared: Congress is given the primary power to draft laws, subject to the president's veto and judicial review; the executive branch is given the primary power to implement laws, subject to congressional oversight and judicial review; and the courts have the primary power to interpret laws, subject to a variety of legislative and executive checks, including the appointment process, budgetary powers, and the passage of "overrides"-laws that explicitly reverse or materially modify existing judicial interpretations of statutes. — Mark C. Miller

You have to be whole: rich in the body, rich in science; rich in meditation, rich in consciousness. — Rajneesh

It is a common on occurrence to see a Negro well situated as a minister or teacher aspiring to a political appointment which temporarily pays little more than what he is receiving and offers no distinction except that of being earmarked as a Jim Crow job set aside for some Negro who has served well the purposes of the bosses as a wardheeler in a campaign. — Carter G. Woodson

Feelings can only be hidden so long from those who really pay attention.
page 141 — Jamie Ford

Secular artists see themselves with performance; they are more self involved, presentational. — Boris Kodjoe

As long as the appointment process is transparent and there is a broad mix of political views among the governors of the BBC, I think the public can feel confident that impartiality and independence are just as important to me as they have been to previous incumbents. — Gavyn Davies

Yes, it's true, I've been called the Laurence Olivier of spoofs. I guess that would make Laurence Olivier the Leslie Nielsen of Shakespeare. — Leslie Nielsen

Dear Amy,
It must really suck to know you peaked at twelve.
Love, Kristen — Kristen Johnston

Our business is to stand strongly for principles, but never to attack persons, about whose lives we can know but little. — George Arundale

With the advent of genetic engineering the time required for the evolution of new species may literally collapse. — Dee Hock

There's no "right way" to garden, only what suits each person and place. — Janet Macunovich