Ralph G. Neas Quotes

The most important rule for a nominee in a confirmation hearing is the 80/20 rule. If they are talking 80% of the time and you are talking 20%, you’re winning. If its 60/40, it means you are arguing. If it is 50/50, it means you have lost and you’d better throw in the towel.

The one thing we can all be sure about in politics is you are as well to expect the unexpected.

And in that confirmation process, I sat for 17 hours in front of a senate judiciary committee.

In my first week as a U.S. senator, I had the privilege of participating in the Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Judge Sonia Sotomayor.

What can equal the caprices of politics?

No president gets all his judges.

When voting on the confirmation of a presidential appointee, always vote no, because if he or she is confirmed, it won't be long before your vote is proved politically correct.

So long as cameras are there, confirmations will be drawn-out photo opportunities.

When you're in the real world as President of the United States it doesn't go according to the script.

Before I went to work for 'Playboy,' I planned to apply to Yale to get a public policy master's. I felt drawn to go into politics. Even before that, my dream was to wind up either in the Senate or on the Supreme Court. I had big dreams as a little girl.

You never know where the future will take you.

Voting on a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court is one of the most important duties of a U.S. Senator.

You never know how life turns out.

What I like about the EMAs is that you will never know what happens.

You never know what can happen in the draft.

Everything works out in weird ways in the NFL.

Rock 'n' roll is a crazy world, and it's how things work out you can't predict.

You never know what happens a few years down the line.

You never know what can happen in football and in life.

I don't think anyone can ever predict a phenomenon. It's not something you can bank on.

Of course you can never say zero possibility or 100 per cent possibility in football, because you never know what will happen because football changes so rapidly.

Things never pass where you think, nor along the paths you think

No one knows what Donald Trump is doing or planning.

Nothing is alarmist with Donald Trump because you don't really know what he's going to do.

Bush is an idiot and he's President, so anything's possible