Lee Radziwill Quotes

Nepotism sometimes can be a lose-lose situation.

Government is not a bottom line enterprise. You can get yourself elected ... but you can't fire the legislature if they won't do what you want.

I feel strongly that the state would not be well-served by having a governor and speaker of the House from the same family and have never planned to run for governor if that would be the case. With Speaker Madigan planning to continue in office, I will not run for governor.

What can one man do even if he is the president?

When in doubt, you bring in relatives. Nepotism is a part of my work.

My father was against nepotism.

Nepotism is a natural thing that happens in every field.

Nepotism is an overrated debate. It exists everywhere and I have been telling this from the day one.

People cried nepotism every time I was on the field. But I played for a lot of coaches before I played for my father, and I started for everybody. He wasn't the first person who all the sudden put me in the starting lineup.

I'm a legislator, but it's hard to legislate when my party's out of power.

After getting the job at MTV, the challenge was, 'How do I start my career as a television host without people holding my dad's career over my head?' It's a very easy thing for people to look to my dad and say, 'Well, he got his job because of this.'

I was not broadcasting St. Louis Cardinals baseball because I was accomplished. I was broadcasting baseball at 21 years old because I was Jack Buck's son. I had a billion advantages.

People favouring their relatives more than an outsider is what the biggest fight in democracy is, let it be in film industry or politics.

My family doesn't interfere in my professional decisions at all.

For people, we were never Dabboo Malik's kids, we were always Anu Malik's nephews.

I can tolerate anything but corruption and nepotism.

I've never really turned to my dad for anything, I think out of fear of the label of nepotism.

If I dyed my hair, my mother would actually disown me.

I would never hold my children back from that. I would never want them to resent me for holding them back from their father's wedding.

Joe Biden is compromised by China. He has taken billions of dollars from the Chinese government in the form of payments to his son's businesses.

The Clintons engage routinely in corrupt practices, mixing their political power with their nonprofit work to make themselves rich, while not standing up for the little guy.

There is no nepotism in the Hindi film industry.

I have never understood why people identify with criminals: even if your father and grandfather were criminal, you have to find a way to be free.

There are a lot of presidents in both parties - including President Obama - who had strong claims of executive privilege that I certainly think went too far.

No, I never felt cornered because I was not a big director's son or a star's son.