Beschloss Michael Quotes

#1. He burned his house down for the fire insurance and spent the proceeds on a telescope.

Robert Frost

#2. What they're doing is, they're making the decisions for us. That's what this country is coming down to. They're going to make the decisions for us.

Michael Schiavo

#3. First of all, there's no mention of political parties in the Constitution, so you begin American history with not only no political conventions but also no parties.

Michael Beschloss

#4. Man was not made for the service of economies; economies were made to serve mankind; and men and women were made - so we believe - to serve one another, not just ourselves.

Jonathan Sacks

#5. So if 1960 had occurred under the old convention system, Kennedy would have had a very hard time getting the Democratic nomination because he would have been rejected by all those people who had worked with him in Washington.

Michael Beschloss

#6. We know that all things work together for the good of those who love God: those who are called according to His purpose" (Rom. 8:28).

Henry Webb

#7. Oftentimes during the period in which conventions really did business, you had situations where the delegates were divided and you would have ballot after ballot before there was a final nominee.

Michael Beschloss

#8. To people who remember JFK's assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father's coffin.

Michael Beschloss

#9. I'd really like to be in closer contact with life. I'm a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside.

Yves Saint-Laurent

#10. This is not a personal attack. It's a statement of fact - Barack Obama has never led anything.

Rudolph W. Giuliani

#11. Knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that's what we do.

Leigh Bardugo

#12. What does so-called success or failure matter if only you have succeeded in doing the thing you set out to do. The DOING is all that really counts.

Eva Le Gallienne

#13. As parties began to develop around the turn of the 19th century, you had party nominees for President nominated in caucuses made up of party members in Congress.

Michael Beschloss

#14. You have had presidential candidates over the last 30 years who would have had a very hard time getting nominated under the old system. One example is John Kennedy.

Michael Beschloss

#15. Then you get to the last half of the 20th century, Americans are getting very skeptical about their leaders and their institutions, and another place that is affected is parties and conventions.

Michael Beschloss

#16. The Founding Fathers would be sorry to see that America had become so divided and factionalized.

Michael Beschloss

#17. Legacy is what a president does that affects later generations.

Michael Beschloss

#18. The founders were very worried that if parties developed in America, you might have something like the modern Italian system, where you have 20 different parties that divide Congress and the country and can't govern.

Michael Beschloss

#19. From the beginning of the presidential nominating conventions in the 1830's really through the 1950's, you had conventions that actually did real business.

Michael Beschloss

#20. I so enjoy being old because for the first time I don't have to do anything-work, teach, study. I feel very good about myself-and at my age I can say no to anything now if I don't want to do it. What a liberating word.

Bel Kaufman

#21. I couldn't imagine what it cost him to say these words. "I do," I said. "And you must forgive me.

Sue Monk Kidd

#22. The master of your body did not run off and leave you masterless.

B. J. Palmer

#23. And finally, let me just say it is a fact that not every city can dedicate resources to terrorism.

Vito Fossella

#24. We [the United States] are the world's only superpower right now, so everyone notices every bit of what we do or don't do.

Michael Beschloss

#25. An epigram is only a wisecrack that's played at Carnegie Hall.

Oscar Levant

#26. So the result was that as one approached a political convention for most of the 19th century and for most of the 20th century until the 1960's, part of the drama was the fact that you didn't know ultimately who was going to be the nominee at the end of that convention week.

Michael Beschloss

#27. And it's not red, it's auburn, and I'm not feisty or tempestuous or any of the other things red hair is supposed to signify. Anyways, as I said, it's auburn.

Kate Alcott