Delegates Quotes - Page 6

• Music isn't just for professionals. We delegate all of our music and our dancing and our art to professionals. It's silly. We should be doing our own dancing and drawing.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Art, Silly, Drawing

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves.

  John Locke

  Government, Libertarian Party, People

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• Mr. Chairman, delegates. I accept your nomination for President of the United States of America. I do so with humility, deeply moved by the trust you have placed in me. It is a great honor. It is an even greater responsibility.

  Mitt Romney

  Humility, Responsibility, America

  "Election Guide: Romney Rhetoric". Interview with Jason Williams, www.cityweekly.net. October 31, 2012.

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• I have learned to delegate.

  Gwen Stefani

  I Have Learned

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• Speed is the form of ecstasy the technical revolution has bestowed on man. As opposed to a motorcyclist, the runner is always present in his body, forever required to think about his blisters, his exhaustion; when he runs he feels his weight, his age, more conscious than ever of himself and of his time of life. This all changes when man delegates the faculty of speed to a machine: from then on, his own body is outside the process, and he gives over to a speed that is noncorporeal, nonmaterial, pure speed, speed itself, ecstasy speed.

  Milan Kundera

  Running, Men, Thinking

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• Surround yourself with great people; delegate authority; get out of the way

  Ronald Reagan

  Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership

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• In 1954, Pope Pius XI, of all people, sent some Vatican delegates on a trip to Libya with these written instructions: "Do NOT think that you are going among Infidels. Muslims attain salvation, too. The ways of Providence are infinite.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Thinking, People, Way

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.197, A&C Black

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• You're bored, aren't you.' 'I need constant distraction. Shall we go?' 'Uh, aren't you supposed to delegate responsibility or something? If you're not here, who's in charge?' Skulduggery looked around and pointed to a sorcerer at the far side of the cemetery. 'He is.' 'Who is he?' 'Don't know. He looks like leadership material, though, doesn't he?' 'Does he?' 'He's wearing a hat.' 'And that means he's a leader?' 'Leaders wear hats. It's to keep the rain off while we make important decisions. He'll do fine.' 'Shouldn't you tell him that he's in charge?' 'And spoil the surprise?

  Derek Landy

  Rain, Mean, Responsibility

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• In the Democratic primary in 2008, the Obama team devised a strategy to use the caucuses and a complicated system of awarding delegates in the state primaries to sneak up on Hillary Clinton and establish a lead Obama never surrendered.

  John Podhoretz

  Team, Use, Complicated

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• Obama considers himself above deal-making and back-slapping, political necessities he often delegates to Vice President Joe Biden and other lesser sorts.

  Ron Fournier

  Political, President, Vices

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• A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Fathers Day, Kings, Dad

  Marlene Dietrich (2012). “Marlene Dietrich's ABC: Wit, Wisdom, & Recipes”, p.45, Open Road Media

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• I'm going from doing all of the work to having to delegate the work - which is almost harder for me than doing the work myself. I'm a lousy delegator, but I'm learning.

  Alton Brown

  Learning, Doing Me, Harder

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• The inability to delegate is one of the biggest problems I see with managers at all levels.

  Eli Broad

  Inability, Levels, Problem

  Eli Broad (2012). “The Art of Being Unreasonable: Lessons in Unconventional Thinking”, p.42, John Wiley & Sons

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• Nobody is going to delegate a lot of power to a secretary that they can't control.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Secretary

  "Rather Says Bloomberg Ruled Out White House Bid". Interview with Dan Rather, cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com. August 17, 2007.

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• Basically, we've learned to delegate. We just grew tired of becoming too psychotic and straining to make the records ourselves.

  Stevie Jackson

  Tired, Records, Becoming

  "Belle and Sebastian". Interview with Gretta Cohn, pitchfork.com. March 6, 2006.

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• Mr. Chairman, delegates, and fellow citizens: I am honored by the support of this convention for vice president of the United States. I accept the duty to help lead our nation out of a jobs crisis and back to prosperity - and I know we can do this.

  Paul Ryan

  Jobs, Support, President

  Republican National Convention VP Nomination Acceptance, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• Will you accompany me in this dance?” he said, bowing and holding out his hand. “No, thank you.” Miri smiled. The prince frowned and looked and the chief delegate as if for assistance. Miri laughed self consciously. “I, uh, I was teasing.

  Shannon Hale

  Self, Hands, Tease

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• Ultimately, totalitarianism is the only sort of politics that can truly serve the sky-god's purpose. Any movement of a liberal nature endangers his authority and that of his delegates on earth. One God, one King, one Pope, one master in the factory, one father-leader in the family at home.

  Gore Vidal

  Atheist, Kings, Father

  Gore Vidal (1992). “The Decline and Fall of the American Empire”

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• A government, the constitution of which renders it unfit to be trusted with all the powers which a free people ought to delegate to any government, would be an unsafe and improper depositary of the NATIONAL INTERESTS.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Government, People, Would Be

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2014). “The Federalist Papers”, p.110, Courier Corporation

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• Have passion for what you do; believe in yourself and your product and your customer; persevere; delegate; listen. Have fun. Today, I add: "Do good".

  Richard Branson

  Fun, Believe, Passion

  Sir Richard Branson (2011). “Screw Business as Usual”, p.35, Random House

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• After the confetti is swept and the champagne bottles are tossed a more sober reality will take hold. Not just that her net gain of delegates this week will be, at most, in the single digits. But worse. There is no plausible scenario in which Clinton can win the nomination. At least not democratically.

  Marc Cooper

  Winning, Reality, Bottles

  "It’s 3 a.m. and Hillary’s Dreaming" by Marc Cooper, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2008.

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• Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.

  Theodor Adorno

  Violence, Domination, Physical Violence

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.182, Verso

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• We simply cannot delegate the exercise of mercy and generosity to others.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Exercise, Generosity, Mercy

  Margaret Thatcher (1997). “The collected speeches of Margaret Thatcher”, HarperCollins

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• It appears to me, then, little short of a miracle, that the Delegates from so many different States . . . should unite in forming a system of national Government, so little liable to well founded objections.

  George Washington

  Government, Miracle, Different

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1835). “The Writings of George Washington: pt.III. Private letters from the time Washington resigned his commission as commander-in-chief of the army to that of his inauguration as president of the United States: December, 1783-April, 1789. 1835”, p.317

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• Princes should delegate to others the enactment of unpopular measures and keep in their own hands the means of winning favours.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, War, Mean

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