Ron Fournier quote: "One of Obama's most impressive attributes is his quiet confidence: Voters sense that he is comfortable in his own skin, a dedicated father and friend who won't waste time with the phony rituals of Washington."

Sitting in the Oval Office, beneath a painting of George Washington, with a bust of Martin Luther Ki...
RON FOURNIER

Shock, confusion, fear, anger, grief, and defiance. On Sept. 11, 2001, and for the three days follow...
RON FOURNIER

It's an appeal as old as America and its presidency: This is an extraordinary country populated ...
RON FOURNIER

President Obama is casting his lot in the middle of a debate as old as America itself: Are we rugged...
RON FOURNIER

Christie led the way - with a bulldozer. The governor is blunt, brash, and self-consciously authenti...
RON FOURNIER

By nominating Chuck Hagel to be his Defense secretary, President Obama is putting forward an aloof c...
RON FOURNIER

Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Roosevelt faced adversities that, in their times, seemed impregna...
RON FOURNIER

Washington's answer to a self-inflicted financial crisis reminded Americans why they so deeply d...
RON FOURNIER

Close elections tend to break toward the challenger because undecided voters - having held out so lo...
RON FOURNIER

Got good news and bad news for you, Mr. President. The good news is that Chief Justice John Roberts ...
RON FOURNIER

According to a Public Policy Polling survey, most Americans find lice and colonoscopies more appeali...
RON FOURNIER

'Argo,' 'Lincoln,' and 'Zero Dark Thirty,' three films honored with Best Pic...
RON FOURNIER

The 2016 presidential election is ripe for the emergence of a game-changing political leader who eit...
RON FOURNIER

Most political journalists come to Washington because they're snappy writers, big thinkers, or n...
RON FOURNIER

Movies such as 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' in 1939 to 'Dave' in 1993 portray Wash...
RON FOURNIER

Climate change was a point of division between Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney. The president...
RON FOURNIER

If history is a guide, a victory for Obama means he faces the prospect of a second term dogged by sc...
RON FOURNIER

We're living in an era of unprecedented change, and I want to be a part of documenting it.
RON FOURNIER

Obama considers himself above deal-making and back-slapping, political necessities he often delegate...
RON FOURNIER

The problem, gentlemen, is that Obama is right: The promise of upward mobility is dying in America, ...
RON FOURNIER

Obama shows no sign of easing up on negativity.
RON FOURNIER

Once a popular Alaska governor with a modest record of accomplishment, Palin could conceivably reviv...
RON FOURNIER

We, the people. Manifest Destiny. Conceived in liberty. Fear itself. Ask not. Morning in America. Un...
RON FOURNIER

If Mitt Romney is vanilla, Chris Christie is three hefty scoops of Rocky Road topped with whipped cr...
RON FOURNIER

This is Romney's biggest political weakness. His policy flip-flops and the general sense that he...
RON FOURNIER

Andrew Jackson was the first president to claim that the desires of the public overrode Congress'...
RON FOURNIER

A concrete agenda and landslide victory might not even guarantee a president his mandate in a capita...
RON FOURNIER

Mandates are rarely won on election night. They are earned after Inauguration Day by leaders who spe...
RON FOURNIER

Anything may be possible in America, but a Palin presidency is virtually implausible.
RON FOURNIER

Don't stigmatize in a rush to explain inexplicable evil.
RON FOURNIER

Political consultants are pugilists, masters in the dark art of negativity. Which is why it's su...
RON FOURNIER

Obama is capable - as evidenced by his first-term success with health care reform. But mandate-build...
RON FOURNIER

Obama won the presidency on the strength of his message and the skills of the messenger. Now the tal...
RON FOURNIER

Election night is the easiest time to act like a grownup.
RON FOURNIER

Somebody must be up and somebody must be down. Trouble is, campaigns are messy, subtle creatures tha...
RON FOURNIER

The question is whether voters, particularly independents, believe that Obama truly values personal ...
RON FOURNIER

A sagging economy, a soaring national debt, and an increasingly restive Congress pushed Obama to ord...
RON FOURNIER

Say what you want to say about the rest of his presidency, including his tone-deaf response to Katri...
RON FOURNIER

Political reporters and political professionals rushed to judgment against Romney because we crave c...
RON FOURNIER

Historians will likely give Obama credit for steering the country away from the brink of economic co...
RON FOURNIER

For a man who has compared himself to Theodore Roosevelt and the nation's challenges to those of...
RON FOURNIER

In times of tumult, voters are likely to forgive a president, if not reward him, for compromises mad...
RON FOURNIER

Great individuals are not only popular themselves, but they give popularity to whatever they touch.
FOURNIER

On the Russian side, of course, they have in mind space tourism and propose a certain level of comfo...
ALAIN FOURNIER

For future exploration, when we have the objective of going to the Moon, it is important to have sev...
ALAIN FOURNIER

Experience has shown that it is very important within an international programme to have a robust ap...
ALAIN FOURNIER

It's meant to service the space station and to go between Earth and an orbit around the Moon with si...
ALAIN FOURNIER

The objective is to have a vehicle which is more comfortable than the Soyuz capsule which will be us...
ALAIN FOURNIER

The question Kiefer asks is: when do we have this heightened awareness of the scope of the universe?
ANIK FOURNIER

The buildings of the Third Reich had a very strong neo-classic design. They were supposed to last fo...
ANIK FOURNIER

The attic offers an idea of memory. It also asks: how can we explain the past?
ANIK FOURNIER

Her generation lived through two world wars and lost. She represents a hopeless identity of people i...
ANIK FOURNIER

He was someone who created a lot of controversy about recent German history when it was taboo to do ...
ANIK FOURNIER

There's chaos to the universe. But there's also drawn lines of the constellations for us to make som...
ANIK FOURNIER

A number of his paintings are made with charcoal. Kiefer shows not just destructive forces, but reju...
ANIK FOURNIER

It was an oversight, I guess. The audit found it and we paid it.
BRUCE FOURNIER

Such drastic changes to public health and our judicial system should have been open for public debat...
WENDY FOURNIER

Families of vaccine-injured children have witnessed the emotional, physical, and financial devastati...
WENDY FOURNIER

This is going to be very tight until the end of the season. Lyon, Lens and Monaco are going to be to...
LAURENT FOURNIER

We want a sea of red from Friday to Sunday. We just want to have a whole lot of fun, a big celebrati...
FRANCOIS FOURNIER

She really needs the rest. We told her not to do anything for a month. Her body has just taken a kic...
FRANCOIS FOURNIER

If you like somebody, then it's easier to play with them and it's easier to play harder beside them,...
FRANCOIS FOURNIER

There has to be the natural gift. When I see her do her thing on the soccer field or on the basketba...
FRANCOIS FOURNIER

This evening, which I have tried to spirit away, is a strange burden to me. While time moves on, whi...
ALAIN-FOURNIER

We stayed 30 minutes in the corridor, ... We were then put in two small rooms with stewards smoking ...
LAURENT FOURNIER

So we can't afford to let points go at home. We need to take the three points on Saturday and snatch...
LAURENT FOURNIER

I don't have any explanation for this defeat. I'm stunned, and I don't know what to say.
LAURENT FOURNIER

The players need to become competitive again and, to do that, they will need to take stock of the se...
LAURENT FOURNIER

There is still a long way to go but it's easier to work hard when you are on the top of the standing...
LAURENT FOURNIER

It's now a major objective, especially for the players. The players are the ones that matter.
LAURENT FOURNIER

But the most important thing for the club is to regain its soul.
LAURENT FOURNIER

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when it is the only idea we have.
HENRI ALBAN-FOURNIER

One of my top priorities will be to defund Planned Parenthood.
RON ESTES

People are saying that I'm an alcoholic, and that's not true, because I only drink when I wo...
RON WHITE

My biggest regret could be summed up in one word, and that's procrastination.
RON COOPER

I'd rather do a really good small part than a really bad big part.
RON WHITE

The bulk of my fans are my age, and I'm aging at the same rate they are. That makes me relevant....
RON WHITE

I didn't get where I am today by worryin' about how I'd feel tomorrow.
RON WHITE

When I was about 12 years old back in Houston, my Dad used to take us to the driving range.
RON WHITE

Anybody could say anything they want about me, and it literally never penetrates my skin.
RON WHITE

I believe everything creative is somewhat collaborative. If you're a painter and someone stretch...
RON WHITE

I do live like a rock star, but it's not as great as it sounds. It's a lot of traveling.
RON WHITE

Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty... mine's putting in an express lane.
RON WHITE

I believe that a bad Super Bowl halftime show is still better than a soccer game.
RON WHITE

There are two kinds of comics; there are the ones who build bridges, and then there are the people w...
RON WHITE

The next time you have a thought... let it go.
RON WHITE

I was a comedy fan when I was a little kid.
RON WHITE

Pace, rhythm and timing. Pace, rhythm and timing is what it's about. The content's got to be...
RON WHITE

I love Cincinnati, but you can keep that spaghetti chili product!
RON WHITE

When I was a kid, mostly I played in a ditch that didn't have much water in it. It was for drain...
RON WHITE

I've never been one to look up the ladder. I've always looked down the ladder. As long as th...
RON WHITE

Diamonds - that'll shut her up... for a minute!
RON WHITE

I think honest communication, no matter where it comes from, is positive for a relationship.
RON WHITE

You can't fix stupid.
RON WHITE

I've got a great cigar collection - it's actually not a collection, because that would imply...
RON WHITE

I had the right to remain silent... but I didn't have the ability.
RON WHITE

How did we win the election in the year 2000? We talked about a humble foreign policy: No nation-bui...
RON PAUL

There is nothing wrong with describing Conservatism as protecting the Constitution, protecting all t...
RON PAUL

You don't have freedom because you are a hyphenated American; you have freedom because you are a...
RON PAUL

The obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the worl...
RON PAUL

Capitalism should not be condemned, since we haven't had capitalism.
RON PAUL

All initiation of force is a violation of someone else's rights, whether initiated by an individ...
RON PAUL

When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three cho...
RON PAUL

Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy.
RON PAUL

You wanna get rid of drug crime in this country? Fine, let's just get rid of all the drug laws.
RON PAUL

Maybe we ought to consider a Golden Rule in foreign policy: Don't do to other nations what we do...
RON PAUL

What is not conservative about saying, 'Don't go to war unless we go to war properly with a ...
RON PAUL

Well, I don't think we should go to the moon. I think we maybe should send some politicians up t...
RON PAUL

1913 wasn't a very good year. 1913 gave us the income tax, the 16th amendment and the IRS.
RON PAUL

If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not s...
RON PAUL

When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.
RON PAUL

The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our lib...
RON PAUL

There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator...
RON PAUL

Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is required in self-defense.
RON PAUL

I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society ...
RON PAUL

The last show we played, I was straight as a die. It did feel weird not to be hiding behind alcohol ...
RON WOOD

You cannot be against embryonic stem cell research and be intellectually and therefore morally consi...
RON REAGAN

If we weren't running deficits, if we weren't spending more than we were taking in, there wo...
RON JOHNSON

The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem...
RON PAUL

Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conc...
RON PAUL

In a time of serious budget deficits, immense war costs and a sluggish economy, we cannot afford to ...
RON KIND

I believe the U.S. has been way too silent on the brutality, the lack of human rights in the Muslim ...
RON JOHNSON

In the 1970s we saw a massive shift of household savings from the banks to the brokerage firms.
RON CHERNOW

I love learning about different dialects and I own all sorts of regional and time-period slang dicti...
RON RASH

I see a bright future for Florida and for America, and my campaign will be about the ideas and princ...
RON DESANTIS

I go off into Dublin and two days later I'm spotted walking by the Liffey with a whole bunch of ...
RON WOOD

A crash really occurs when you suddenly have a violent downturn in the market that then heralds a lo...
RON CHERNOW

Any bull market covers a multitude of sins, so there may be all sorts of problems with the current s...
RON CHERNOW

Stock market corrections, although painful at the time, are actually a very healthy part of the whol...
RON CHERNOW

As a bull market continues, almost anything you buy goes up. It makes you feel that investing in sto...
RON CHERNOW

As the bull market goes on, people who take great risks achieve great rewards, seemingly without pun...
RON CHERNOW

The founding fathers were not only brilliant, they were system builders and systematic thinkers. The...
RON CHERNOW

Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of ma...
RON PAUL

Watching National League pitchers trying to hit or even bunt is depressing.
RON BLOMBERG

If you manage things properly - and, listen, I'm a business guy. I've got to prioritize spen...
RON JOHNSON

I am very grateful to Jeb Bush for his support of my candidacy.
RON DESANTIS

When I came to town and saw the price of diesel went above regular gas, that burnt me up.
RON ZIEGLER

You don't want too much fear in a market, because people will be blinded to some very good buyin...
RON CHERNOW

I was by far the least popular of the Blue Collar crew when we started. There was a definite pecking...
RON WHITE

If you watch the 'Blue Collar Comedy Tour,' don't expect that when you come see me by my...
RON WHITE

There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know ...
RON WOOD

Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can...
RON JAWORSKI

I have very close friends who are very devout Catholics, and I talked to them before the 'Da Vin...
RON HOWARD

Really, I was such a late bloomer, I really didn't learn how to be me until I was in my late ...
RON PERLMAN

I lost 90 pounds and my blood pressure went down to a normal level and the salt in my urine disappea...
RON PERLMAN

A small profit it better than a big loss
RON RASH

Fractal geometry is everywhere, even in lines drawn in the sand. It's the cycle of life... You s...
RON EGLASH

You don't have power if you surrender all your principles -- you have office.
RON TODD

But nothing is solid and permanent. Our lives are raised on the shakiest foundations. You don't need...
RON RASH

I believe when life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade...and try to find someone whose life ...
RON WHITE

But let it not be said that we did nothing. Let not those who love the power of the welfare/warfare ...
RON PAUL

The British were unhinged by the colonists' unorthodox fighting style and shocking failure to abide ...
RON CHERNOW

To love a man enough to help him, you have to forfeit the warm, self-righteous glow that comes from ...
RON HALL

You reach a point where you say you're not going to do juveniles any longer.
RON HOWARD

Being an umpire is like being a king. It prepares you for nothing.
RON LUCIANO

Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can ...
RON JAWORSKI

Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.
RON BROWN

Competing in sports has taught me that if I'm not willing to give 120 percent, somebody else will.
RON BLOMBERG

After being Washington's aide for four years and becoming the hero of Yorktown, Hamilton was vie...
RON CHERNOW

Life is an aggregate of experience, which continually surprises us.
RON CARLSON

More important is the fact that embryonic stem cell research could lead to new treatments and cures ...
RON KIND

I don't live in books, but, boy, have books amplified my life.
RON CARLSON

I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American...
RON PAUL

America needs a new generation of leaders to address the big issues facing the country: alleviating ...
RON DESANTIS

We need a new generation of leaders who will promote policies that will foster economic growth and a...
RON DESANTIS

Freedom of religion is a principle that is central to our Nation's Declaration of Independence. ...
RON LEWIS

We must enforce the laws we have on the books, secure our borders, and deny special benefits to ille...
RON DESANTIS

More customers for Canadian oil means that Canadian producers can charge more for their oil, which t...
RON WYDEN

Al-Qaeda has a kind of loose, almost entrepreneurial structure with lots of cells in various countri...
RON SUSKIND

Financial literacy is an issue that should command our attention because many Americans are not adeq...
RON LEWIS

I absolutely reject that idea that the press is liberal and what it does is liberal. In my view, it&...
RON SUSKIND

We have all read tragic stories in our local papers about gun accidents as a result of misuse. As la...
RON LEWIS

When I occasionally indulge in sort of a 'look back' at highlights, it's so interesting ...
RON HOWARD

Even as kids reach adolescence, they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is n...
RON TAFFEL

I believe that we all have a responsibility to give back. No one becomes successful without lots of ...
RON CONWAY

When you're young and you're striving, it's all uphill, and it's easier to climb. Th...
RON HOWARD

We have three cats. It's like having children, but there is no tuition involved.
RON REAGAN

Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it's wrong.
RON PAUL

You learn by mistakes. When you make those mistakes, you try not to make them the third time or the ...
RON JAWORSKI

I don't even like to use the word relationship. I don't know what it means.
RON SILVER

Now in the 1980s, I happened to notice that if you look at an aerial photograph of an African villag...
RON EGLASH

I started collecting aerial photographs of Native American and South Pacific architecture; only the ...
RON EGLASH

It's time to look beyond the budget ax to assure access to health care for all. It's time to...
RON WYDEN

When you first meet an investor, you've got to be able to say in one compelling sentence - that ...
RON CONWAY

Facebook is becoming the web. Everything you need is there... it is the universe.
RON CONWAY

Cities like New York have already followed San Francisco and have started similar organizations like...
RON CONWAY

I started sfCiti because I believed that technology companies needed to take a 'One City' ap...
RON CONWAY

I couldn't care less who is mad at me as long as the entrepreneur comes out ahead.
RON CONWAY

I never said I enjoy anything about using the Internet. I enjoy helping the entrepreneurs who are bu...
RON CONWAY

All the biggest companies are based on a founder who had a need, hacked it together, and said, '...
RON CONWAY

Entrepreneurs, because they need money, they are willing to share their crystal ball with someone li...
RON CONWAY

The tech community is a closely knit group, which is why it's so powerful. All of these companie...
RON CONWAY

Social media is here to stay, and the social phenomenon that is bringing this about is consumers'...
RON CONWAY

As the tech industry continues to grow and sprout successful startups across the country, it is impo...
RON CONWAY

Tech people like to stick to their knitting, and they measure their accomplishments by the growth of...
RON CONWAY

I really don't have a lot of interest in national politics, and it's because I'm a skept...
RON CONWAY

Technology does more than delight, entertain and make our lives more convenient, it's also an ag...
RON CONWAY

By welcoming eager, talented workers, we expand America's potential for growth, and our competit...
RON CONWAY

I am most proud of what sfCiti has accomplished with the 'Circle the Schools' program, which...
RON CONWAY

One of Obama's most impressive attributes is his quiet confidence: Voters sense that he is comfortable in his own skin, a dedicated father and friend who won't waste time with the phony rituals of Washington.

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One of Obama's most impressive attributes is his quiet confidence: Voters sense that he is comfortable in his own skin, a dedicated father and friend who won't waste time with the phony rituals of Washington.

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