John Dickerson quote: "An old theory holds that air conditioning ruined Congress. Members no longer had to flee the Washington heat to spend the summer back home. The long vacation forced them to bond with their constituents."

Raymond Shaw is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my ...
JOHN DICKERSON

Politicians have done some grim things in pursuit of the office. President Franklin Roosevelt was a ...
JOHN DICKERSON

In 1840, William Henry Harrison is the first one to really campaign as a candidate, and the campaign...
JOHN DICKERSON

When former Defense Secretary Robert Gates wrote his recent book, 'Duty', it was full of tou...
JOHN DICKERSON

My instincts for asking questions is to press but not to be a jerk about it.
JOHN DICKERSON

The culture of undermining sends signals of disrespect. This approach not only saps motivation and u...
JOHN DICKERSON

President-elect Donald Trump says he's looking for a simple plan for defeating ISIS within his f...
JOHN DICKERSON

In the end, Obama won, stealing the change message from John Edwards and beating back Hillary Clinto...
JOHN DICKERSON

I believe that Jesus Christ existed and that He died for my sins. And I believe that what He said in...
JOHN DICKERSON

Comey worried that the pressure from Trump to end the Flynn investigation or remove the 'cloud&#...
JOHN DICKERSON

That's what politics is. It's the story of what's happening, what does it mean, what'...
JOHN DICKERSON

Today, campaigning isn't an 'interruption' but a permanent condition. Indeed, if you are...
JOHN DICKERSON

The house was big enough for my brother and me to have firecracker wars at one end and leave Mom and...
JOHN DICKERSON

Expectations shouldn't be lowered, even if Donald Trump was just telling stories to impress the ...
JOHN DICKERSON

When the campaign ends, and you are home, the alarm clock is the same, but you don't know where ...
JOHN DICKERSON

Mom would talk about Eric Sevareid and Murrow and Howard K. Smith the way other parents talk about s...
JOHN DICKERSON

When the news broke that John McCain had been diagnosed with brain cancer, the outpouring of well wi...
JOHN DICKERSON

The swashbuckling independence of my childhood was not all good, and as a father, I'm puzzling o...
JOHN DICKERSON

Mr. Obama said that he personally told Mr. Putin to knock it off and vows to retaliate. But the Obam...
JOHN DICKERSON

Mitt Romney won the GOP nomination on a platform of 'self-deportation' for illegal immigrant...
JOHN DICKERSON

I've talked to several who have been approached for short- or long-term duty in the Trump admini...
JOHN DICKERSON

My mother, Nancy Dickerson, was a reporter for CBS and NBC and the first female star of television n...
JOHN DICKERSON

If we practice hard enough, we can become thoroughly interested in even the simplest things of daily...
JOHN DICKERSON

In 2008, Senator John McCain forbid his staff from using an ad that referred to his opponent Barack ...
JOHN DICKERSON

In their day, no man worthy of the presidency would ever stoop to campaigning for it. George Washing...
JOHN DICKERSON

The walls of our upstairs hallway testify that we once had photogenic children. There are rows of fr...
JOHN DICKERSON

In the modern presidency, the Chief Executive is expected to respond to anxious national moments wit...
JOHN DICKERSON

I'll tell you one thing about me: I'm very private. I always have been private. People think...
ERIC DICKERSON

I've stayed buddies with my old buddy Jackie Slater. I talk to Jackie Slater. I play golf with M...
ERIC DICKERSON

My hat goes off to David Gomez and Quincy Davis, both of whom kept fighting the last 20 minutes of t...
DAVE DICKERSON

The thing that I saw was two or three of our guys had a chance at intercepting the ball, but they di...
DAVE DICKERSON

The perfect fit for L.A. would be the St. Louis Rams. I really believe that. I know their stadium de...
ERIC DICKERSON

She had never been in love before. She'd tried to save herself the pain, but all her pretending and ...
MELANIE DICKERSON

Why could he not have chosen some other woman? Why Avelina? But he knew why. It was because she had ...
MELANIE DICKERSON

I am sure you know that a woman of good character, modesty, and prudence would not make her wish to ...
MELANIE DICKERSON

He wasn't like that before Scientology.
JAMES DICKERSON

We got out-toughed. We knew coming in, we'd have to do the intangibles to win, but they were the tou...
DAVE DICKERSON

Southern Miss is our big rival. We will have to play our best to win. In the first game, Forte was t...
DAVE DICKERSON

I hit a bunch of good shots and just kept plugging along. A good solid round, and just a lot of fun.
BUBBA DICKERSON

I'm proud of my carefree behaviour [...] I am boisterous, when I choose to be, and simply because I ...
MELANIE DICKERSON

I'm just not the outgoing bubble of energy. But if I know you, it's different. Practical jok...
ERIC DICKERSON

I should like the woman I choose to be very honest, generous, and to have a sincere faith in God, ra...
MELANIE DICKERSON

I think I'm proudest of making my parents proud.
ERIC DICKERSON

Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God's will for you i...
MELANIE DICKERSON

I was raised by my great-great aunt. I was adopted within our family. My mother had me when she was,...
ERIC DICKERSON

I think the expectations put on myself were a little too high a little too fast. But I'm starting to...
BUBBA DICKERSON

I feel like I need to play to try and get ahead. Next year I'll set a schedule and stick to it. I th...
BUBBA DICKERSON

In the NFL, you have a short shelf life. As a running back, if you're the first pick, and you...
ERIC DICKERSON

This is just what we needed. We needed to be home in the friendly confines of our arena, in our city...
DAVE DICKERSON

Everyone will say I'm insane, but I don't care, Rose. Is it insane to marry the girl I love? A girl ...
MELANIE DICKERSON

The people of Texas A&M and the community have accepted us with open arms, and when I say that, I'm ...
DAVE DICKERSON

They are the most athletic team we're going to play all year and they did a good job of using it ton...
DAVE DICKERSON

It was a great college basketball game, there were a lot of lead changes, the guys were playing hard...
DAVE DICKERSON

He's a kid you can win a lot of games with.
DAVE DICKERSON

We shot 31.4 percent and they shot 36.8 percent. You probably saw some ugly basketball.
DAVE DICKERSON

We shoot 31 percent, they shoot 36. You probably saw some ugly basketball out there.
DAVE DICKERSON

We need him to play well. Our players look for him. For him to have 20 points and shoot 8-of-13 is a...
DAVE DICKERSON

We have to accelerate this, but it's going to take us some time to get everybody in place.
DAVE DICKERSON

Them sportswriters don't even know how to put uniforms on, most of 'em.
ERIC DICKERSON

For some reason when I type the word "love" in my iPad it keeps autocorrecting to "live". I find it ...
ANNASTACIA DICKERSON

That's fairly typical of him. Most people would consider him the most powerful fellow in movies. You...
JAMES DICKERSON

After much consideration and review of financial ramifications, this organization cannot continue to...
JAMES DICKERSON

A move to Division I will increase the exposure of the entire university, not just the athletics pro...
HENRY DICKERSON

We played hard, but we just got too far behind early. We committed too many turnovers, and their [22...
HENRY DICKERSON

Shawn [Vikings coach Walker] does a good job with his team, and they've been pretty good at home. We...
HENRY DICKERSON

I think the guys are all learning their roles now. But we've still got a long ways to go. I expect L...
HENRY DICKERSON

We knew the kid [Johnson] could do it -- he just hadn't done it. He just played outstanding basketba...
HENRY DICKERSON

They've got a good team. It's a big rivalry, so I hope the guys will be ready to play.
HENRY DICKERSON

They were picked to win the division for good reason. They know how to win.
HENRY DICKERSON

That was important that we won a game on the road. I think we got a big lift out of it. I was concer...
HENRY DICKERSON

These games are running too close together. I know St. Aug is going to be athletic. They've got thre...
HENRY DICKERSON

We'd like to be winning, but the thing I like about my guys is that they're playing hard and don't q...
HENRY DICKERSON

She was so lovely, it hurt his chest to gaze at her, especially knowing she was courageous and cleve...
MELANIE DICKERSON

If you die fighting, I want to die fighting with you.
MELANIE DICKERSON

She whispered, "Even with a broken hand, you are the knight I'd most want and trust to rescue me-and...
MELANIE DICKERSON

I continually hear people say that having libraries open is part of their need for normalcy. We grea...
LON DICKERSON

We can't send somebody up to drive her down, because we're down to 25 percent of our staff, and no o...
LON DICKERSON

Those countries buying U.S.-built fighters usually arm them with U.S.-built weapons, although there ...
LARRY DICKERSON

Raytheon has a big advantage in that the U.S. is a leading provider of combat aircraft to the world.
LARRY DICKERSON

The vast majority of Chinese air-to-air missile sales are to its own government, and those that are ...
LARRY DICKERSON

If you don?t fly them all the time, what?s the point of having them?
LARRY DICKERSON

Just looking to see the conditions of the lake. Kind of looking to see what I can see.
JED DICKERSON

Whatever happens, we know it's the world record. Unless that one gets caught again, no one will ever...
JED DICKERSON

I heard about that bass and I knew that fish was getting ready to go.
JED DICKERSON

She sat there like she'd done all this before. She was so docile. That fish probably thinks this is ...
JED DICKERSON

The ones you are going to catch will be deep and I'd suggest plastic worms on a Texas rig.
JED DICKERSON

The high water from last year will be a benefit. There is lots of brush where the fish hide and this...
JED DICKERSON

He's still a little young for bass fishing, so I wanted to teach him the ropes and trout offer a lit...
JED DICKERSON

I run upright mostly when I see daylight, so if you watch film you'll see I don't get hit in...
ERIC DICKERSON

I believe if I stay tall and run up high, I can see better.
ERIC DICKERSON

Running is so natural to me. When I was running track, people used to ask me, 'When are you gonn...
ERIC DICKERSON

In the NFL they talk about 'contracts,' but it's not really a contract, it's a one y...
ERIC DICKERSON

I don't give players a chance to hit me.
ERIC DICKERSON

Most of the hits I take come on top of the shoulder pads.
ERIC DICKERSON

I love being single. I can come and go as I please and stay out as late as I want to.
ERIC DICKERSON

Anything will worry me. I may not get a check for the light bill off in time and I just get to worry...
ERIC DICKERSON

When you look at guys who get recruited, most of the best athletes, they come from poor families. I ...
ERIC DICKERSON

I don't love football the way I once loved the game. I don't look at it as fun anymore, and ...
ERIC DICKERSON

I love golf. But do you know how I got good at golf? Because of Charles Barkley. I was playing with ...
ERIC DICKERSON

I thought both of our pitchers did extremely well. And we had some key hits from some people who hav...
MISSY DICKERSON

So far, the people have been great and it's been very enjoyable. I've got a good coaching staff, eve...
RON DICKERSON

My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of so...
JOHN OLIVER

Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is al...
JOHN BERGER

No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the mai...
JOHN WYCLIFFE

By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Am...
JOHN ROBERTS

Human beings, we have dark sides; we have dark issues in our lives. To progress anywhere in life, yo...
JOHN NOBLE

Learn as many mistakes and what not to do while your business or product is small. Don't be in s...
DAYMOND JOHN

Being thrown into the fire and getting the thing turned around in a hurry made it more difficult. Th...
JOHN ELWAY

This Constitution was not made for a day, nor is it composed of such flexible materials as to be war...
JOHN TYLER

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
JOHN LENNON

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
JOHN MORTIMER

No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.
JOHN JAY

Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
JOHN LOCKE

High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just ...
JOHN MAYER

When I was growing up in rural Alabama, it was impossible for me to register to vote. I didn't b...
JOHN LEWIS

The documented incidences of voter fraud are very rare, yet throughout the country, forces have mobi...
JOHN LEWIS

Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the ...
JOHN CALVIN

I was introduced to the Turducken in New Orleans. And it wasn't Thanksgiving. Glenn at the Gourm...
JOHN MADDEN

Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fa...
JOHN CLAYTON

Is it possible that the portrait of the divine Son of God is an exaggeration, at best, or a complete...
JOHN CLAYTON

Was the real Jesus of history one and the same as the Christ of faith whom we read about in the New ...
JOHN CLAYTON

I believe any question that man can ask has a reasonable answer-at least an answer that is as consis...
JOHN CLAYTON

Almost every time I am in a lectureship on a college campus, young people will say, If there is a Go...
JOHN CLAYTON

I guess none of us like to look back in our lives to a time when we made poor judgments and foolish ...
JOHN CLAYTON

In the surface of the paper there is only length and width-there is no such thing as thickness.
JOHN CLAYTON

Why is it any more reasonable to believe that God has always been than it is to say that matter has ...
JOHN CLAYTON

What is the origin of God?
JOHN CLAYTON

The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and e...
JOHN CLAYTON

The denominational world tries to pressure its members to focus on the birth of Christ, but in doing...
JOHN CLAYTON

Not only are Christians writing about Jesus, but also Communists, Jews, atheists and agnostics are t...
JOHN CLAYTON

There was no instruction to be thankful that the Christians were special people, chosen people. Ther...
JOHN CLAYTON

It is my fervent hope and prayer that by exposing my mistakes and by pointing out the things that we...
JOHN CLAYTON

We are assuming that we exist, that there is reality, and that the matter of which we are made is re...
JOHN CLAYTON

The purpose of this study is to offer a logical, practical, pragmatic proof of the existence of God ...
JOHN CLAYTON

Since I was an atheist for many years and came to believe in God through my studies in science, it f...
JOHN CLAYTON

How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
JOHN BURROUGHS

You wouldn't do something for a receiver to catch the ball if the quarterback couldn't throw...
JOHN MADDEN

I'm not everybody's cup of tea. But sometimes criticism can be hurtful. Be respectful. I'...
ELTON JOHN

The prison-industrial complex, poverty, and the school system has more effect on a young black male ...
JOHN LEGEND

I have learned in fashion to be a little savage.
JOHN FAIRCHILD

Perhaps they thought I was on a fact-finding mission, never for one moment thinking that a man of my...
JOHN PRESCOTT

My consultant keeps telling me sudden death could come at any moment.
JOHN TAVENER

As you grow older, you learn a few things. One of them is to actually take the time you've allot...
JOHN BATTELLE

When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent.
JOHN MUIR

Inherent in architecture, it involves everything in life so that there is absolutely no end to it. B...
JOHN LAUTNER

My folks always let me go to the movies every Saturday. We were really motion-picture goers.
JOHN WAYNE

I was ashamed to admit I was hipped to the idea of acting. That's why I started in with the prop...
JOHN WAYNE

I've loved reading all my life.
JOHN WAYNE

Nothing is so discouraging to an actor than to have to work for long hours upon hours in brightly li...
JOHN WAYNE

I'd read up on the history of our country and I'd become fascinated with the story of the Al...
JOHN WAYNE

Get off your butt and join the Marines!
JOHN WAYNE

Everybody that I was in school with had an uncle or father in the law, and I started to realize that...
JOHN WAYNE

Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity - and I don't mean simple - it&...
JOHN WAYNE

In westerns, you meet a hardy bunch of characters. There is no jealousy on such pictures.
JOHN WAYNE

I was sure I'd set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the ...
JOHN WAYNE

I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers ...
JOHN WAYNE

All I'm for is the liberty of the individual.
JOHN WAYNE

Nobody should come to the movies unless he believes in heroes.
JOHN WAYNE

When you come to see a picture of mine, I want you to know that I'm not going to do anything tha...
JOHN WAYNE

You learn a lot more from the lows because it makes you pay attention to what you're doing.
JOHN ELWAY

I've experienced the highest of highs and lowest of lows. I think to really appreciate anything ...
JOHN ELWAY

If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer ...
JOHN WOODEN

Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't i...
JOHN LENNON

Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving.
JOHN LITHGOW

Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.
JOHN PORTMAN

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
JOHN DONNE

Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking.
JOHN MCCARTHY

If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good.
JOHN MALKOVICH

I think people took Grenada for what it turned out to be, which was a very specific incident and fro...
JOHN NEGROPONTE

Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matte...
JOHN LUKACS

Well, if you're true to yourself you're going to be true to everyone else.
JOHN WOODEN

The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
JOHN MILTON

I'm not interested in my legacy. I made up a word: 'live-acy.' I'm more interested i...
JOHN GLENN

The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shir...
JOHN HEYWOOD

Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.
JOHN HEYWOOD

Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?
JOHN HEYWOOD

When all candles be out, all cats be grey.
JOHN HEYWOOD

Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar.
JOHN CIARDI

It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad y...
JOHN CIARDI

What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks ...
JOHN CIARDI

Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it!
JOHN CIARDI

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.
JOHN CIARDI

Poetry lies its way to the truth.
JOHN CIARDI

Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.
JOHN CIARDI

Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character.
JOHN CIARDI

The day will happen whether or not you get up.
JOHN CIARDI

You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
JOHN CIARDI

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they hav...
JOHN CIARDI

The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it.
JOHN CIARDI

With any of the movies I've had a chance to do, or any of the TV shows I've had a chance to ...
JOHN CENA

The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undi...
JOHN CHEEVER

Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.
JOHN WEBSTER

Old friends are best.
JOHN SELDEN

They say stay in the lines, but there's always something better on the other side.
JOHN MAYER

Rome was not built in one day.
JOHN HEYWOOD

You win by working hard, making tough decisions and building coalitions.
JOHN ENGLER

I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the ...
JOHN MCGAHERN

The last thing on my mind was to be an actor, but I had a crush on a cute girl in the drama departme...
JOHN RATZENBERGER

He who laughs most, learns best.
JOHN CLEESE

Some people feel fulfillment from a bitter end - it gives them some sort of sense of reality. But, w...
JOHN BOYEGA

An old theory holds that air conditioning ruined Congress. Members no longer had to flee the Washington heat to spend the summer back home. The long vacation forced them to bond with their constituents.

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An old theory holds that air conditioning ruined Congress. Members no longer had to flee the Washington heat to spend the summer back home. The long vacation forced them to bond with their constituents.

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