"Protestations of indifference to higher office are hard……" — Jeff Greenfield
"Protestations of indifference to higher office are hard to take seriously when the 'non-candidate' is busily engaged in testing the waters."
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38 Quotes by Jeff Greenfield
Jeff Greenfield has 38 quotes on this site.
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The niftiest turn of phrase, the most elegant flight of rhetorical fancy, isn't worth beans next to a clear thought…
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Describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial: These people have served a longer sentence than some people who…
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Victory has 1,000 fathers; defeat has 1,000 kibitzers.
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There is no such thing as political science, but there are tenancies so strong that they might as well be…
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In politics, Bugs Bunny always beats Daffy Duck. Daffy's always going berserk, jumping up and down, yelling. Bugs's got that…
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A citizen at his home in Rockford, Illinois, or Boulder, Colorado, could read a newspaper, listen to a radio, or…
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Well, politics is war, and in war, truth is the first casualty.
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Television is one of the most fickle businesses that there are, you are in favour one minute and out the…
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If the court strikes down the Defense of Marriage Act, is that a 'liberal' result enabling gay couples married in…
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History doesn't turn on a dime; it turns on a plugged nickel.
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I got into writing and thinking about politics because I was told there would be no math.
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In another life, before taking the veil of journalistic purity, I practiced the black arts of a political operative, including…
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More Busily Quotes
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I am busily engaged in study of the Bible.
— Abraham Lincoln
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Science is not a sacred cow-but there are a large number of would-be sacred cowherds busily devoting quantities of time,…
— John W. Campbell
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I am busily engaged in the study of the Bible. I believe it is God's word because it finds me…
— Abraham Lincoln
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One of the best ways of avoiding necessary and even urgent tasks is to seem to be busily employed on…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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We must be mad, literally mad, as a nation to be permitting the annual inflow of some 50,000 dependents, who…
— Enoch Powell
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The Savior’s words are simple, yet their meaning is profound and deeply significant. We are to love God and to…
— M. Russell Ballard
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Yet the stupid believe they are awake, busily and brightly assuming they understand things, calling this man ruler, that one…
— Zhuangzi
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I am often thought of as being remarkably bright, and yet my brains, more often than not, are busily devising…
— Alan Bradley
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A person may rise to the highest degree of contemplation even when busily occupied.
— Mary Euphrasia Pelletier
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The snow had begun in the gloaming, and busily all the night had been heaping field and highway with a…
— James Russell Lowell
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The Prime Minister in the UK thinks spending and borrowing more is the right thing to do in the circumstances,…
— John Redwood
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My soul is more at rest from the tempter when I am busily employed.
— Francis Asbury
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