Quotes About Engagement

Oh, you know. I am secretary of state. My trips aren't successful. I just talk to people.

Inside the room, a man and a woman were wrestling. They were both naked.

Just as you grieve if a friend is killed, you should grieve if a fictional character is killed. You should care. If somebody dies and you just go get more popcorn, it's a superficial experience isn't it?

Every battle is a gamble, Snow. The man who does nothing also takes a risk.

It was like murdering two of your children. I try to make the readers feel they've lived the events of the book. Just as you grieve if a friend is killed, you should grieve if a fictional character is killed. You should care. If somebody dies and you just go get more popcorn, it's a superficial experience isn't it?

and Jon had ordered benches and tables brought in. Men with comfortable seats were more inclined to listen, Maester Aemon had once told him; standing men were more inclined to shout.

You should grieve if a fictional character is killed. You should care.

He caught the first man in the back of the knee before they even knew he was there, and the heavy axehead split flesh and bone like rotten wood. Logs that bleed, Tyrion thought inanely as the second man came for him. Tyrion ducked under his sword, lashed out with the axe, the man reeled backward... and Catelyn Stark stepped up behind him and opened his throat. The horseman remembered an urgent engagement elsewhere and galloped off suddenly.

Fans never fall asleep at our games, because they're afraid they might get hit by a pass.

I am annoyed by individuals who are embarrassed by pauses in a conversation. To me, every conversational pause refreshes.

A good citizen must follow the movement of public affairs, so as to cast his vote intelligently, and know whether the party in power deserved his vote.

Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country." George Santos

Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent.

there is in men and women a motivation stronger even than love or hatred or fear. It is that of being interested — in a body of knowledge, in a problem, in a hobby, in tomorrow's news­paper.

My father once told me that American democracy is a people's democracy at heart, and that it therefore can be as great as the American people, or as fallible. It depends on all of us. But our system is more fragile than we know. To sustain it, we must always cherish the ideals on which it was founded, remain vigilant against the dark forces that threaten it, and actively engage in the process of making it work.

Our Democracy is a Participatory Democracy. Existentially it's dependent on people who cherish the shinning, highest ideals of our Democracy and actively engage in the political process.

Young people today, for example, often watch live television (if they watch it live at all) with both the TV and their laptops or tablet devices on.

Facebook itself has an interest in having great content so that its users keep coming back.

beyond important news, let's face it: Facebook and Twitter are filled with information no one really needs to know.

If leadership requires a fired-up sense of purpose and imagination, it also demands a profound connection to the society to be led.

There are some who feel like that, you know, the conditions are such that they can attack us there. My answer is, bring 'em on.

'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances, with any portion of the foreign world.

For if you care for your freedoms, Stay Woke!

The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is in extending our commercial relations to have as little political connection as possible... Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalships, interest, humor, or caprice?... It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.