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“I'm not conniving - that has a pejorative context. I'm not sitting in back rooms making deals. That's not my style.”

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Bess Myerson was an American television actress, born on July 16, 1924, and passed away on December 14, 2014. She was active in the television industry during the 1950s and 1960s, known for her roles in various television series. more

“Filibusters have proliferated because under current rules just one or two determined senators can stop the Senate from functioning. Today, the mere threat of a filibuster is enough to stop a vote; senators are rarely asked to pull all-nighters like Jimmy Stewart in 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.'”

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Author:Evan Bayh

“Words can hurt you. In the larger world, it frames how people think about you, and it can hurt you in lots of little, subtle ways.”

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Author:Nathan Myhrvold

“I was good at math and science, and I got lots of degrees in lots of things, but in a parallel universe, I probably became a chef.”

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“Nuclear energy is a baseload - meaning it's power that you can run any time you want, day or night - and carbon-free.”

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Author:Nathan Myhrvold

“Risk is the sort of word that is easy to discuss upfront but tough to handle when it comes time to pay the piper. There will always be some who wimp out and second-guess when the pain hits, but that is a childish reaction.”

Pain Easy Pay Risk Tough Handle Reactions Pipers Wimps

Author:Nathan Myhrvold

“Elections, for their part, are typically popularity contests rather than measures of candidates' relative competency or effectiveness. Imagine if scientific truth were determined according to which scientist was most popular. To be successful, scientists would have to be charismatic and attractive - and human knowledge would suffer terribly.”

“A person's basic humanity is not governed by how he or she came into this world, or whether somebody else happens to have the same DNA.”

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Author:Nathan Myhrvold

“An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.”

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Author:Nathan Myhrvold

“By burning nuclear waste as fuel, we believe we can power the United States cleanly for hundreds of years without ever touching new resources.”

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Author:Nathan Myhrvold

“Filibusters should require 35 senators to... make a commitment to continually debate an issue in reality, not just in theory. The number of votes needed to overcome a filibuster should be reduced to 55 from 60.”

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Author:Evan Bayh

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