Celinda Lake quotes

“Women are the volatile vote at the end-particularly independent, non-college-educated married women.”
-- Celinda Lake

#Independent Quotes #College Quotes #Politics Quotes

“We should realize that the average family in America spends five minutes a week on politics.”
-- Celinda Lake

#Average Quotes #America Quotes #Political Quotes

“Women are really demanding more flexibility in the workplace. Control is the new currency.. Forty-six percent of women want to start their own small businesses.”
-- Celinda Lake

#Want Quotes #Six Quotes #Workplace Quotes

“The fastest surging woman leadership position is heading non-profit organizations. Women are not rejecting leadership positions -- they're rejecting politics.”
-- Celinda Lake

#Organization Quotes #Rejection Quotes #Women Leadership Quotes

“Talking about peoples lived experiences is a powerful way to mobilize them. We can create new rules.”
-- Celinda Lake

#Powerful Quotes #Talking Quotes #Way Quotes

“Listen to the women. Women say exactly what they want. Who has concrete plans - not macroeconomics but kitchen table economics. Who will change the situation for their families, and help restore the middle class. Women are also sick to death of having their bodies and their lives treated as a political football.”
-- Celinda Lake

Source : "Women Are the Deciders, But for Which Candidate? An Interview With Pollster Celinda Lake". Interview with Martha Burk, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 15, 2012.

#Football Quotes #Class Quotes #Sick Quotes

“Human beings have fabricated the illusion that in the 21st century they have the technological prowess to be independent of nature. Bees underline the reality that we are more, not less, dependent on nature’s services in a world of close to 7 billion people”

Source : "Bee deaths may signal wider pollination threat: U.N." by Alister Doyle, www.reuters.com. March 10, 2011.

“I'm fiercely independent, but I'm also terrified of being alone.”

“The fact I want...no, I need for us to be exclusive until we part ways when we head off to college”

“The Committee supports the idea that there should be, within the University of California, a campus which puts particular emphasis on the education of undergraduates within the framework of a College system.”

“Junior colleges are high schools with ashtrays.”

“During Vietnam, I was in college, enjoying my student deferment. The government wisely felt that, in my case, military service was less important than completing my studies to prepare me for my chosen career: comedian.”

Source : Al Franken (2005). “The Truth (with jokes)”, p.60, Penguin

“Some of George W. Bush's friends say that Bush believes God called him to be president during these times of trial. But God told me that He/She/It had actually chosen Al Gore by making sure that Gore won the popular vote and, God thought, the Electoral College. 'That worked for everyone else,' God said.”

“Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.”

“Did you weep for the children who lost their dear loved ones and pray for the ones who don't know? Did you rejoice for the people who walked from the rubble, and sob for the ones left below?”

“Modern politics is civil war carried on by other means.”

Source : Alasdair MacIntyre (2013). “After Virtue”, p.294, A&C Black