Top 16 Petraeus For President Quotes
#1. We're breaking all of the rules, even our own rules, and how do we do that? By leaving plenty of room for X quantities.

#2. Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.

#3. One of the challenges in networking is everybody thinks it's making cold calls to strangers. Actually, it's the people who already have strong trust relationships with you, who know you're dedicated, smart, a team player, who can help you.

#4. Californians have brought suburb-making almost to an art. Their cities and their country-side are equally suburban. No-one has a country house in California; no-one has a city house. It is good to see trees always from city windows, but it is not so good always to see houses from country windows.

#5. The president and I sat down in the Oval Office, and he expressed very clearly that what he wants from me is my best professional military advice.

#6. I want you to know what I have told Australia's Parliament in Canberra - what I told General Petraeus in Kabul - what I told President Obama in the Oval Office this week. Australia will stand firm with our ally the United States.

#7. You are the cutting edge of a thirteen billion year old process of defining novelty. Your acts matter. Your thoughts matter. Your purpose? To add to the complexity. Your enemy? Disorder, entropy, stupidity, and tastelessness.

#8. General Petraeus is not a miracle worker. He can not be successful unless the president creates greater confidence within his own team about the decisions which the president has himself made.

#9. I drift into the armpits of strangers, tasting their manic salt, and sleep to forget everything.

#10. The fact is ... I'm in love with you, and I have been for some time.

#11. The "keep quiet and look good" living is always easier than heart-baring, mistake-admitting, choosing-humility life offered in Jesus.

#12. You have to do what you want to do, and I genuinely believe that if you start interacting in the world that way that there is a respect in that.

#13. One of the characteristics of plays that are made into films is that they can be very talky.

#14. Hugging is the seed of a happy heart.

#15. When God measures a man he puts the tape around the heart, not the head.

#16. The basic problem, actually, is how to get rid of the idea that we're going to get rid of our problems. Only then can we relate directly with the real issues of our life.

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