Preclearance Quotes

#1. Throwing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#2. President Bush even authorized the National Security Agency to monitor -
without preclearance from a judge - phone calls
and e-mails of U.S. citizens. In

Todd Donovan

#3. The self is a
self-made
Procrustean bed
of little comfort

Ulf Wolf

#4. First-class travel, provided one hasn't to pay for it oneself, is the most insidiously addictive of life's luxuries.

P.D. James

#5. to the door. Blankets, supplies, hardtack.

Jodi Thomas

#6. I debated whether to tell them I had long since abandoned my writing career and moved into radishes and fraud, but decided the timing was wrong.

Susan Juby

#7. ...the only real fool is the last fool

Mark Henwick

#8. I found the pearl of the Orient slightly less exciting than a rainy Sunday evening in Rochester.

S.J Perelman

#9. Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important is the fact that society operates on the theory that specialization is the key to success, not realizing that specialization precludes comprehensive thinking.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#10. Freedom is incomplete without social justice.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

#11. We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others.

Blaise Pascal

#12. I try to do the right thing, Holden. But there are times when it's not obvious what that is." "I agree with you," Holden said. "Right up to the part where you tell me this is one of those times.

James S.A. Corey

#13. Women have routinely been punished and intimidated for attempting that most simple of freedoms, taking a walk, because their walking and indeed their very beings have been construed as inevitably, continually sexual in those societies concerned with controlling women's sexuality.

Rebecca Solnit

#14. Great leaders are willing to retire unloved and unpopular as the price for great exertion.

Charles Krauthammer

#15. The intuitive, the expressive, the un-measurable, the intensely personal have never found a satisfactory place in the curriculum, in assessment, in the publics esteem.

Hedley Beare