Mcclellan Quotes

• My Dear McClellan, if you don't want to use the army I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Funny, War, Humor

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• Sending armies to McClellan is like shoveling fleas across a barnyard, not half of them get there.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Army, Half

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• Military metaphors are rarely exact, but sending Republicans against Democrats when the issue hangs in the balance is nearly always as futile as sending George B. McClellan against Robert E. Lee, the Italians against Marshal Montgomery's desert rats or an Arab armored division against an Israeli rifle company. The copy desk can write the headline before the battle begins and take the rest of the night off.

  Wesley Pruden

  Military, Writing, Night

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• Steve McClellan has drawn on an insider's lifetime view of how Wall Street really works to produce a practical and entertaining book of advice for investors. Whether you are a new or experienced investor you'll get something valuable out of it, including more than a few chuckles.

  Charles O. Rossotti

  Wall, Book, Views

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• I think if you'd had television cameras at Gettysburg, this would be two nations today. People would not have put up with that carnage if they saw it up close. We'd have elected McClellan in 1864.

  George Will

  Thinking, Two Nations, Media

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• But to hear Kennedy when he was grandstanding in front of the McClellan Committee you might have thought I was making as much out of the pension fund as the Kennedys made out of selling whiskey.

  Jimmy Hoffa

  Might, Whiskey, Selling

  "Hoffa The Real Story" by Jimmy Hoffa, (p. 121), 1975.

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• The vast army of McClellan spread out before me. The marching columns extended back as far as eye could see in the distance. It was a grand and glorious spectacle, and it was impossible to look at it without admiration.

  Daniel Harvey Hill

  War, Distance, Eye

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• If I gave McClellan all the men he asked for, they could not find room to lie down; they'd have to sleep standing up.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Lying, Sleep

  Abraham Lincoln (2001). “Lincoln's Words: Sentiments from the 16th President of the United States”

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• According to Washington insiders, White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan could be the next official to leave the Bush administration. McClellan says he'd like to spend more time lying for his family

  Amy Poehler

  Lying, White, House

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• What I hear about the book does not sound like the Scott McClellan I knew for two years. I can say, without fear of contradiction, that I knew Scott better than any other White House correspondent or Washington reporter.

  Jeff Gannon

  Book, Years, Two

  "Jeff Gannon weighs in on McClellan" by Michael Calderone, www.politico.com. May 29, 2008.

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