Top 100 Quotes About Mcclellan
#1. Sending armies to McClellan is like shoveling fleas across a barnyard, not half of them get there.
Abraham Lincoln
#2. But to hear Kennedy when he was grandstanding in front of the McClellan Committee you might have thought I was making as much out of the pension fund as the Kennedys made out of selling whiskey.
Jimmy Hoffa
#3. The vast army of McClellan spread out before me. The marching columns extended back as far as eye could see in the distance. It was a grand and glorious spectacle, and it was impossible to look at it without admiration.
Daniel Harvey Hill
#4. I think if you'd had television cameras at Gettysburg, this would be two nations today. People would not have put up with that carnage if they saw it up close. We'd have elected McClellan in 1864.
George Will
#5. According to Washington insiders, White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan could be the next official to leave the Bush administration. McClellan says he'd like to spend more time lying for his family
Amy Poehler
#6. Steve McClellan has drawn on an insider's lifetime view of how Wall Street really works to produce a practical and entertaining book of advice for investors. Whether you are a new or experienced investor you'll get something valuable out of it, including more than a few chuckles.
Charles O. Rossotti
#7. The clear suggestion is that there ought not to be civilian control of the military. What have callow noncombatants giving brisk orders to grizzled soldiers? How could Lincoln have fired the slavery-loving Gen. George B. McClellan, or Truman dismissed the glorious Douglas MacArthur?
Christopher Hitchens
#8. Two Confederate senators proposed a night attack on McClellan employing exotic tactics - "5000 [men] stripped naked to storm the camps of the enemy with the bayonet only & Kill everybody with clothes on.
William J. Cooper Jr.
#9. What I hear about the book does not sound like the Scott McClellan I knew for two years. I can say, without fear of contradiction, that I knew Scott better than any other White House correspondent or Washington reporter.
Jeff Gannon
#10. My Dear McClellan, if you don't want to use the army I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully.
Abraham Lincoln
#11. If I gave McClellan all the men he asked for, they could not find room to lie down; they'd have to sleep standing up.
Abraham Lincoln
#12. Perhaps," observes James McPherson, "McClellan's career had been too successful. He had never known . . . the despair of defeat or the humiliation of failure. He had never learned the lessons of adversity and humility." Lincoln had clearly learned those lessons.
Joshua Wolf Shenk
#14. And there, among the ruined splendor of Skyline Palace, Adamat saw a god weep for the hero of Adro.
Brian McClellan
#15. Here is a paper with which, if I cannot whip Bobbie Lee, I will be willing to go home!
George B. McClellan
#16. I have the feeling you would much rather be on the front than in Adopest trying to win over the snakes in politics. At least here you're allowed to shoot your enemies.
Brian McClellan
#17. Larry broke my morose train of thought with his laughter. "Welcome to America," he said, "where even our zombie epidemic has an obesity epidemic.
Ian McClellan
#18. Let the Kez come," Tamas roared. "Let them send their greatest generals after us. Let them stack the odds against us. Let them come upon us with all their fury, because these hounds at our heels will soon know we are lions!
Brian McClellan
#19. It's no coincidence that Superman's parents are Joseph and Martha Kent.
Scott McClellan
#20. Conscious of my own weakness, I can only seek fervently the guidance of the Ruler of the Universe, and, relying on His all-powerful aid, do my best to restore Union and peace to a suffering people, and to establish and guard their liberties and rights.
George B. McClellan
#21. When I was knowingly misled but only learned that much later, that's really when I started to become disillusioned at the White House.
Scott McClellan
#22. Anybody will do for you, but not for me. I must have somebody.
Abraham Lincoln
#23. For Dad For never being hesitant that I'd make it this far. Even when you should have been.
Brian McClellan
#24. When a man solved his problems by punching them, books were often a foreign thing.
Brian McClellan
#25. Churches are like announcement factories that pump toxic levels of noise pollution into the atmosphere.
Scott McClellan
#26. I think it reflects the reality on the ground, that this was an important milestone that's been achieved by the Iraqi people, and it's a significant development. It's a real hopeful moment for democracy in Iraq.
Scott McClellan
#27. Well, uh, all people - all, I think all human begins, uh, have good attributes, and they also have their flaws.
Scott McClellan
#29. I fell far short of living up to the kind of public servant I wanted to be.
Scott McClellan
#30. When this sad war is over we will all return to our homes, and feel that we can ask no higher honor than the proud consciousness that we belonged to the Army of the Potomac.
George B. McClellan
#31. Even if you are a pompous ass with no respect for authority, you're worth fifty men, and I mean to see you in my army."
"That was an incredibly backhanded compliment."
"I meant every word.
Brian McClellan
#32. I remember my mom saying to me that what your friends do is one thing, but what you do could be on the front page of the paper.
Scott McClellan
#34. As far as military necessity will permit, religiously respect the constitutional rights of all.
George B. McClellan
#35. I had unknowingly passed along false information. And five of the highest-ranking officials in the administration were involved in my doing so: Rove, Libby, the vice president, the president's chief of staff and the president himself.
Scott McClellan
#36. I turned on Fox News and jumped when I saw that they had one of those things in their studio. "Are you people crazy?" I screamed at the television. "Get out of there. Somebody shoot it!" Then I realized I was watching Special Report and had mistaken Charles Krauthammer for a zombie.
Ian McClellan
#37. First rule of bathing," Gavril said. "If you can't smell yourself anymore, it's time to wash.
Brian McClellan
#38. I'm an investigator, my dear. Other people's business is my business.
Brian McClellan
#39. As I have heard Bush say, only a wartime president is likely to achieve greatness, in part because the epochal upheavals of war provide the opportunity for transformative change of the kind Bush hoped to achieve. In Iraq, Bush saw his opportunity to create a legacy of greatness.
Scott McClellan
#40. Because what a temporary worker program would do is help relieve pressure on the border. It will allow our law enforcement officials and Border Patrol agents to focus on those who are coming here for the wrong reasons, the criminals and the drug dealers and the terrorists.
Scott McClellan
#42. The Orange Revolution was a powerful example of democracy around the world. The people of Ukraine are continuing to shape their own future.
Scott McClellan
#44. There is nothing that will make a man more desperate and more capable of violence than endangering his family.
Brian McClellan
#46. Despite what some people have said, President Bush did not want black people to die in New Orleans. However, he did hope they would not relocate to any areas of Texas that he likes to frequent.
Scott McClellan
#47. I believe in working together to solve the problems we've got. And we need to get rid of the venom in the political atmosphere in D.C. It's a poisonous atmosphere.
Scott McClellan
#48. The lockpick gaped up at Adamat from his knees. "You're making enough noise, you might as well have knocked on the front door," Adamat said.
Brian McClellan
#49. It is not given to our weak intellects to understand the steps of Providence as they occur: we comprehend them only as we look back upon them in the far-distant past.
George B. McClellan
#50. He (recently-appointed and new-to-command Robert E Lee) will be timid in the irresolute in action.
George B. McClellan
#51. The moment for action has arrived, and I know that I can trust in you to save our country.
George B. McClellan
#52. My wife and I look for ways to always support the troops, including sending care packages regularly to them.
Scott McClellan
#53. I think that there's a tendency in this town to try to selectively pick snapshots when the broader reality is that we have a record of results and that we're getting things done for the American people.
Scott McClellan
#54. Food choices affect health outcomes, and consumers need to have the latest, most up-to-date scientific information in making their food choices.
Mark McClellan
#55. As press secretary, I spent countless hours defending the administration from the podium in the White House briefing room.
Scott McClellan
#56. The President is no more than a well-meaning baboon. I went to the White House directly after tea, where I found "The Original Gorilla", about as intelligent as ever. What a specimen to be at the head of our affairs now.
George B. McClellan
#57. Don't trust any man who surrounds himself with beautiful women. Least of all a priest.
Brian McClellan
#58. In survey after survey, the Iraqi people say, 'We want to choose our leaders.'
Scott McClellan
#59. I was raised on the values of speaking up and making a positive difference in a very political family that believed in the importance of public service.
Scott McClellan
#60. My criticisms are extremely mild in comparison to the tone of some of the questions fired in my direction.
Scott McClellan
#61. The minutiae of the common man is the grease that slicks the gears of civilization. She
Brian McClellan
#62. Roughly 1 in 6 Americans have Irish blood. I'd say it's probably safe to assume that the average Irish-American who only comes out on St. Patrick's Day has no idea of the sort of economic powerhouse Ireland has become.
Scott McClellan
#63. Stand by General Burnside as you have stood by me and all will be well.
George B. McClellan
#64. By some strange operation of magic I seem to have become the power of the land.
George B. McClellan
#66. God' is a funny word, it implies omnipotence and omniscience. Let me assure, I am neither.
Brian McClellan
#67. The collapse of the administration's rationales for war, which became apparent months after our invasion, should never have come as such a surprise. In this case, the 'liberal media' didn't live up to its reputation. If it had, the country would have been better served.
Scott McClellan
#68. There were a number of powerful factions within Adro: the Wings of Adom mercenaries, the royal cabal, the Mountainwatch, and the great noble families.
Brian McClellan
#70. I still like and admire George W. Bush. I consider him a fundamentally decent person, and I do not believe he or his White House deliberately or consciously sought to deceive the American people.
Scott McClellan
#71. I've met dozens of officers who think their immaculate mustache can move the world.
Brian McClellan
#72. When it comes to matters of the heart, rules don't matter.
Rachel McClellan
#73. After the adrenaline had worn off and medals had been awarded and the glory meted out, only the suffering remained after a battle.
Brian McClellan
#74. At what point have you ever gotten the impression that there are good people in the royal cabal?"
"You've given me that impression. Yes. You have."
"Well, get past it. Because I'm not a good man. Not in the slightest. I just pay my debts.
Brian McClellan
#75. Well I think that you have to be open and honest in order to learn from your mistakes and be able to correct them in the future to understand what would happen to take things off course. And if we don't address these issues openly and honestly then we don't learn.
Scott McClellan
#76. The Union, which can alone insure internal peace, and external security to each State, Must and Shall be Preserved, cost what it may in time, treasure, and blood.
George B. McClellan
#77. If it takes talking about unpleasant truths to change Washington, then so be it.
Scott McClellan
#80. He had an honest face, though Adamat found that honest faces were almost always deceptive.
Brian McClellan
#81. The quail was tender, the potatoes smothered in butter, and the beans roasted in garlic.
Brian McClellan
#82. I do expect that the President will say something at the beginning of his remarks today, at the conversation.
Scott McClellan
#83. Promise me."
"No."
Etan's eyes were glassy with tears. "Coward. If I were dying, you'd promise me. Because you wouldn't have to answer to me then. But I'm not dying, and you won't promise it. Bloody coward.
Brian McClellan
#84. One man always makes a difference. Sometimes it's a small one. Other times, he tips a war.
Brian McClellan
#86. A free and prosperous Iraq will be a major blow to the terrorists and their desire to establish a safe haven in Iraq where they can plan and plot attacks.
Scott McClellan
#87. I pretended I was a Kez colonel pretending to be an Adran colonel," Olem said. "It was disturbingly easy."
"They didn't ask for papers or proof?"
"In this rain?" Olem gestured at the downpour. "You don't understand an enlisted man, sir. Nobody asks for bloody papers in this kind of weather.
Brian McClellan
#88. Tamas had heard that every genius was equal parts madness. He
Brian McClellan
#89. I would die for my country. But I'd rather kill for it. Ready your troops. We march!
Brian McClellan
#92. Doctor, what could you prescribe for Charlemund?"
The doctor looked down his nose at the unconscious form of the arch-diocel.
"Arsenic?"
"Now, really. Something to give him a quality headache and a great deal of memory loss."
"Cyanide.
Brian McClellan
#93. I'm done with my job. It was my job to be the advocate and spokesman for the President of the United States.
Scott McClellan
#94. The age of kings is dead, Adamat, and I have killed it.
Brian McClellan
#95. The world is changing. People do not exist to serve their governments or their kings. Governments exist to serve the people, so the people should have a say in those governments.
Brian McClellan
#97. There's a difference between loyal opposition that has a different view, and those who are advocating a defeatist approach that sends the wrong message to our troops and the enemy.
Scott McClellan
#98. Saddam Hussein is being treated the exact opposite of the way his regime treated those he imprisoned and tortured simply for expressing their opinions. And so I reject that.
Scott McClellan
#99. I'm someone who believes in centrist governing philosophy.
Scott McClellan
#100. The president said, 'You've got to vote your conscience.
Scott McClellan
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