Nominates Quotes

#1. The Archivist of the United States essentially works for the American people across partisan lines and not, regardless of which Administration nominates the person, for a particular President or political party.

Allen Weinstein

#2. Whenever a president nominates somebody to a high-profile post, there is always the risk that some skeleton, real or imagined, will emerge from the nominee's closet and doom the whole enterprise.

Timothy Noah

#3. The convention is the voice, the bone and the sinews of a political party-and sometimes it even nominates an Abraham Lincoln.

Fletcher Knebel

#4. Under the Constitution, the president, not the Senate, nominates and appoints judges. The Senate has a different role. We must give our advice .

Orrin Hatch

#5. August 19, 1981: President Ronald Reagan nominates Sandra Day O'Connor to be the first woman on the Supreme Court. Male justices who had made noises over the years about resigning if a woman ever joined their ranks stay put.

Irin Carmon

#6. I bare my nakedness to the world that the world may see who I am; not the mask that hides my flaws, not the mask that hides my beauty. I bask in the light and I take off the mask!

Jocelyn Soriano

#7. It is a difficult matter to keep love imprisoned.

Apuleius

#8. What we're calling 'presencing' is possible because of this womb, where the absolute and the manifest interact. I think a buddhist would say that presencing can arise to the extent that we develop the capacity, individually and collectively, to extend our conscious awareness in both domains.

Betty Sue Flowers

#9. I do not believe the President requires any additional authorization from the Congress before committing US forces to achieve our objectives in the Gulf.

Dick Cheney

#10. English majors understand human nature better than economists do.

Jane Smiley

#11. You don't always need people to take care of you. Sometimes you need people so you can take care of them.

Cameron Jace

#12. Do no harm and leave the world a better place than you found it.

Patricia Cornwell

#13. An artist in my view is always afraid of extremists; he is always afraid of those who claim to have found the ultimate solution to any question.

Chinua Achebe

#14. The black man continues on his way. He plods wearily no longer-he is striding freedom road with the knowledge that if he hasn't got the world in a jug, at least he has the stopper in his hand.

Adam Clayton Powell Jr.

#15. It's nice to be financially secure. Apart from that, I really don't care too much about money.

Magnus Carlsen

#16. People who tell untruths are easily deceived because they have placed their energy in that negative vibration location and are now a match for that behavior.

Molly Friedenfeld

#17. The struggle of today, is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.

Abraham Lincoln