John Podesta Quotes

#1. First and foremost, when I think of him - I'm prejudiced; I worked for the guy for six and a half years - when I think of him, I think of him first and foremost as an idea politician.

John Podesta

#2. So I think in those circumstances, there's some potential that you could see a big pendulum swing like 1994, which people you thought weren't vulnerable all of the sudden get in trouble.

John Podesta

#3. Ultimately I think what people care about, particularly on an issue like Social Security, is not really what's right and what's left but what's right and what's wrong.

John Podesta

#4. I know certain actors are totally screwed up on drugs, yet it gets covered up. Why wasn't I excused for 'exhaustion' or 'the flu'?

Drew Barrymore

#5. I think if you look at yesterday's New York Times poll, particularly when you judge Democrats in Congress versus the Republicans in Congress, people put a little more faith, or even a little more than a little more faith in the Democrats in Congress.

John Podesta

#6. I think that people have to have to have a sense of what ideas are one the progressive side, the Democratic side in order ultimately to be effective in the political world.

John Podesta

#7. Our job in this life is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.

Steven Pressfield

#8. Realistically, I think we are not prepared to go home until we do get more teachers and lower class sizes.

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#9. In fact, I think that Governor Clinton, when he was running, and President Clinton, when he was serving, actually governed with a wide range of advisors and a perspective that blended the best of ideas from the center and the left.

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#10. I think that what we've been able to do is put together both a good group of scholars and analysts and people who aggressively want to make the case to the American public.

John Podesta

#11. I was briefly bitter.

Margot Kidder

#12. I think ... that things are a little bit up for grabs right now ...

John Podesta

#13. Honey, Maggie Jones said. Victoria. Listen to me. You're here now. This is where you are.

Kent Haruf

#14. So I think it's important to communicate with the people in terms of what the real facts are on these proposals and try to have a discussion and a dialogue that gives people information. I think they're hungry for that rather than just political rhetoric.

John Podesta

#15. Resignation is just simply out of the question ...

John Podesta

#16. If you ask the people who are professional political analysts, they would say that the way redistricting has worked, that the Republicans have something of a lock on the House until a redistricting occurs after 2010, particularly as a result of what DeLay did in Texas.

John Podesta

#17. The desire to love someone always exceeds the desire to be loved by someone & that's exactly why we end up loving the person who doesn't deserve that LOVE.

Anirban Bose

#18. These days we don't have to fit into something other people think we are. We've leveled the playing field, life is inclusive. I'm a mom, sex detective, wife, fearless, gentle - we can now, with grace, be all of what we are.

Mariska Hargitay

#19. In today's world, options are everywhere. It takes a great effort to stay faithful, continue to honor your commitment, and do the work it takes to keep your relationship strong.

Jane Greer

#20. I believe that President Clinton considered the legal merits of the arguments for the pardon as he understood them, and he rendered his judgment, wise or unwise, on the merits.

John Podesta

#21. Finally, my biggest failure of 2014: Once again not securing the # disclosure of the UFO files.

John Podesta

#22. Tragedy makes for strange bedfellows.

Lorraine Heath

#23. If medicine was practiced in 1965 the way it's practiced today, there's no question that prescriptions would have been included in Medicare.

John Podesta

#24. If that's your definition of the Clinton faction, then I think that that seems to be in ascendancy. That might include a guy like John Edwards, who's just starting this new center in Chapel Hill to deal with issues of poverty and work.

John Podesta

#25. That doesn't necessarily mean they have to have an explicit proposal that they put forward that all Democrats sign up to, but I think they need to throw some ideas out that, at least directionally, point the way forward.

John Podesta

#26. There are people who kind of gravitate towards running politics based on new ideas and issues, and that was what the secret was for Clinton.

John Podesta

#27. Zen is ... joyous iconoclasm which respects nothing and no one, particularly itself.

Dave Brandon

#28. The American people have the right to know and understand the laws they live under. And they tend to demand answers sooner or later.

John Podesta

#29. This tough-love, winner-take-all narrative dominating policymaking is far too limited a way to think about how a complex, modern, diverse economy like ours expands and thrives. The strongest periods of economic growth in the 20th century were also times when incomes rose across the board.

John Podesta

#30. It's time to find out what the truth really is that's out there,

John Podesta