Chairman Quotes - Page 4

• Being chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee is like being a mosquito in a nudist colony.

  John McCain

  Mosquitoes, Nudists, Committees

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• We should not lay all past mistakes on Chairman Mao. So we must be very objective in assessing him. His contributions were primary, his mistakes secondary. In China, we will inherit the many good things in Chairman Mao's thinking while at the same time explaining clearly the mistakes he made.

  Deng Xiaoping

  Mistake, Past, Thinking

  Source: blog.hiddenharmonies.org

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• It should be pointed out that some of the things done after the arrest of the Gang of Four were inconsistent with Chairman Mao's wishes, for instance, the construction of the Chairman Mao Memorial Hall. He had proposed in the fifties that we should all be cremated when we died and that only our ashes be kept, that no remains should be preserved and no tombs built.

  Deng Xiaoping

  Memorial, Wish, Ashes

  Source: blog.hiddenharmonies.org

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• With all deference to Chairman Mao and other authors whose quotations derive from longer works, it seemed that I was becoming the world's first writer of self-contained ready-made quotations.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Self, World, Firsts

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• When I was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, I would still have junior officers brief me. Usually these people knew more about the subject we were discussing than I did. I had to make sure that they felt confident enough to tell me everything they believed.

  Colin Powell

  People, Juniors, Joints

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• I don't advocate Stalinist monolithic state structures any more than I advocate capitalistic monoliths. Unfortunately, human society tends to the monolithic, whether you go to the left or right, everybody in leathers, or everybody holding Chairman Mao's book, and if everybody goes to one end of the pitch, I always go to the other.

  Robyn Hitchcock

  Book, Mao, Structure

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm the same as maybe six or seven people in every ten - I can't take f***ing criticism.

  Martin Jol

  Soccer, Football, People

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• I didn't know anything about it, I swear. Nor did Dave Bassett. We were sitting there saying 'What's happening here?'. It is frightening. A nightmare.

  Harry Redknapp

  Soccer, Football, Sitting

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• Luckily they had a stupid on their side too.

  Harry Redknapp

  Soccer, Football, Stupid

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• I think if you've managed Celtic or Rangers you can go on to be Prime Minister of Great Britain, it's that hard.

  Gordon Strachan

  Soccer, Football, Thinking

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• I said to them last week that I'd like them to win ugly and they certainly won ugly today. That was the ugliest thing I've seen since the ugly sisters fell out of the ugly tree.

  Terry Butcher

  Soccer, Football, Winning

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• My students used to say, one such as Mary O'Neal, that I identified the students by their boyfriend/girlfriend relationship. That was the way I knew them and keep up with them. Mary was the girlfriend of Stokely Carmichael. She later became a fine painter of distinction and taught at the San Francisco Art Institute, and later became chairman of the Department of Art at Berkeley.

  David C. Driskell

  Art, Girlfriend, San Francisco

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• We had probably our best ever Player of the Year Dance last week. You elected Dennis Wise as Player of the Year. Dennis accepted his award mimicking Vialli, whereupon Zola shouted 'Speak English', Dennis switched to his normal Cockney voice only for Zola to shout 'You're still not speaking English'.

  Ken Bates

  Soccer, Wise, Football

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• The black players at this club lend the side a lot of skill and flair, but you also need white players to balance things up and give the team some brains and common sense.

  Ron Noades

  Soccer, Football, Team

  "Sorry seems to be the hardest word" by Steven Wells, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2002.

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• Unfortunately much of it is frittered away on fast cars, designer clothes and an attitude to pleasure reminiscent of the 18-30 holiday packages.

  Ken Bates

  Soccer, Football, Attitude

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• I'm not going to make a present of Santa.

  Sam Allardyce

  Soccer, Football, Santa

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• I tape over most of them with Corrie or Neighbours. Most of them are crap. They can f***ing make anyone look good. I signed Marco Boogers off a video. He was a good player but a nutter. They didn't show that on the video.

  Harry Redknapp

  Soccer, Football, Player

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• A message to the best football supporters in the world. We need a 12th man here. Where are you? Where are you? Let's be having you. Come on!

  Delia Smith

  Soccer, Football, Men

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• It's like being on the Titanic and seeing there's only one lifeboat left.

  Harry Redknapp

  Soccer, Football, Lifeboats

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• I remember the day when they sold Brian Deane and Jan Aage Fjortoft. It was like when President Kennedy got shot.

  Neil Warnock

  Soccer, Football, President

  "Warnock - mad as chips" by Kevin Mitchell, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2002.

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• I didn't realise you could travel so far and still be in England.

  Kevin Bond

  Soccer, Football, England

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• A terrific game, even on the losing side I could enjoy it.

  Nigel Worthington

  Soccer, Football, Games

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• On current form, both teams will probably lose.

  Aidy Boothroyd

  Soccer, Football, Team

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• He's not fit, either physically or biomechanically.

  Aidy Boothroyd

  Soccer, Football, Fit

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• Good players win you games, good formations stop you losing them.

  Gordon Strachan

  Soccer, Football, Winning

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