Lisa Lutz Quotes

The people don't run the system; the people are victims of the system. The people choose the leaders thinking that they will help them. But when they turn around, there is no help.

Responsibility without power, the fate of the secretary through the ages.

When a leader doesn't do his or her job, it isn't just a problem with the person. They take their whole organization down.

For a guy who believes in hope, Obama doesn't seem to be able to spread much of it around. How can he? We know too much now about the hollowness of institutions and the frailty of their leaders.

I asked certain rich men if they felt embittered. 'How could we not?' they said. So I asked them what caused this anguish. They blamed their wealth.

President Obama chose politics over leadership. 'Hope' and 'Change' have become bait-and-switch.

Great causes and little men go ill together.

What makes us feel pessimistic about the world, ultimately, is the way the media encourage us to believe that our fate hangs on the every move of the promise-breaking, terminally disappointing Teflon liars in Washington.

WCW wasn't what I thought it should be. I thought it could be better. I would make suggestions, but nobody would want to hear them. They think you want their job. Please. It would be easier doing their job because they're used to doing nothing.

I'm just deeply disappointed that once again we may have to settle for the lesser of two evils.

Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats.

The reason nobody else in my business has any impact is because they're all comatose.

Being president, you may have more power than anyone else in the country, but you quickly discover that you have much, much less than you thought you'd have going in. You're hamstrung in ways you never dreamed of.

Some people will always be disappointed.

To all who leaned upon Mr. Gladstone, who trusted him, and hoped for something from him—chips, nothing but chips—hard, dry, unnourishing, indigestible chips.

The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe--responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.

There is little incentive for initiative just now: the [State] Department seems to take no interest; we never receive comments on our work and many of our questions go unanswered.

I swear to the Lord I still can't see Why Democracy means Everybody but me.

Sitting in marble corridors waiting for important people to lie to you.

It seems that the reins of government are held with too feeble a hand..

Alas, we have not yet the power to render completely sterile or make impossible the errors and lies which will merely be America being itself rather than its unconvincing promise.

The indie movie world is like a bad Tinder date, and there are always strings attached.

AAP leaders have failed to take people in confidence.

Having no choice doesn't result in innovation and performance improvement.

The problem is I don't have respect for the films I make after I've made them. I detach myself and get embarrassed when I watch them later.