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We have treated our most serious adversaries, such as Iran and North Korea, in the most juvenile manner - by giving them the silent treatment. In so doing, we have weakened, not strengthened, our bargaining position and our leadership.


Theodore C. Sorensen

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THEODORE HESBURGH A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to t...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The very essence of leadership is [that] you have a vision. It's got to be a vision you articulate c...
THEODORE HESBURGH The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trum...
THEODORE HESBURGH People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the...
THEODORE BIKEL The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything
THEODORE ROOSEVELT All finite things reveal infinitude: The mountain withi its singular bright shade Like the blue shin...
THEODORE ROETHKE Why on earth do you carry a mirror around with you?”
“It's purely a defensive device. We s...
THEODORE STURGEON Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after...
THEODORE RUBIN The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.
THEODORE PARKER I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, Certainly I can! -- and get busy and find out h...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer present or not gui...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loude...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Politics is the science of urgencies.
THEODORE PARKER Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made ...
THEODORE WHITE The idea that man is a tabula rasa, or Mao's sheet of blank paper upon which the most beautiful ...
THEODORE DALRYMPLE If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free -- however free one can be on this pla...
THEODORE WHITE The one being abhorrent to the powers above the earth and under them is the hyphenated American
THEODORE ROOSEVELT There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT In a dark time, the eye begins to see.
THEODORE ROETHKE He is like a good prewar house-solidly built. They don't build them that way anymore. He's also been...
THEODORE WHITE In a state-run society the government promises you security. But it's a false promise predicated on ...
THEODORE FORSTMANN The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants them to do, a...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Our fight is a fundamental fight against both of the old corrupt party machines, for both are under ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT If this country is really to go forward along the path of social and economic justice, there must be...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Far-seeing patriots should turn scornfully from men who seek power on a platform which with exquisit...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT A great democracy has got to be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that hav...
THEODORE RUBIN The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be sup...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where th...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT