Appointees Quotes

#1. Behind a smoke screen of high-profile female appointees and soothing slogans, George W. Bush is waging war on women.

Molly Ivins

#2. They got back the Senate but we have the courts. By the nineties the Supreme Court will be block-solid Republican appointees, and the federal bench - Republican judges like land mines, everywhere, everywhere they turn. Affirmative action? Take it to court. Boom! Land mine. And

Tony Kushner

#3. It turns out that the governor of California has more authority to name appointees than any elected official in America except the president of the United States and the mayor of Chicago. The

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#4. When it comes to pay raises, Congress always plays the role of Grinch. The bill extends an existing pay freeze for Vice President Joe Biden, specifically, and senior political appointees broadly.

Susan Davis

#5. When Obama took office, Republican appointees controlled ten of the thirteen circuit courts of appeals; Democratic appointees now constitute a majority in nine circuits. Because federal judges have life tenure, nearly all of Obama's judges will continue serving well after he leaves office.

Jeffrey Toobin

#6. I have allowed the president to pick his political appointees ... But I will not sit quietly and let him shred the Constitution.

Rand Paul

#7. Women are very different to men, and that hasn't been respected. So when people say there's never been a good woman painter or poet or engineer or whatever, they don't understand that our skills are many simultaneously and men's skills are single.

Joanna Lumley

#8. We must be constantly aware that Satan can take any human effort and twist it to serve his own purposes.

Billy Graham

#9. When I started to make music at the end of the '90s, I saw myself highly influenced by hip-hop and techno, but I wanted to apply these ideas to something from the local sound; something that had identity, that would say who we were and where we came from.

Steven Sater

#10. The pain barrier was not a barrier for her; she could go beyond it.

Paulo Coelho

#11. Let me be known as just the man that told you something you already knew.

Woody Guthrie