Once again, it appears to me that the White House has dictated that the Republican-controlled Congress not conduct oversight of an important national security matter, ... They have made it clear that anyone who suggests that oversight is needed should be labeled as unpatriotic.


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Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER JR.
Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER JR.
I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking da...
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER JR.
The success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER JR.
The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you...
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER III
No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.
JOHN JAY
Rap for me is like making movies, telling stories, and getting the emotions of the songs through in ...
JAY-Z
My mom had early rap records, like Jimmy Spicer. In the middle of the records was a turntable and a ...
JAY-Z
When I listen to Radio 1 and hear five different tracks in a row using old disco samples, well that&...
JAY KAY
I'm a mirror. If you're cool with me, I'm cool with you, and the exchange starts. What y...
JAY-Z
Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who've never done anything because i...
JAY-Z
I collect art, and I drink wine... things that I like that I had never been exposed to. But I never ...
JAY-Z
Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther King could walk. Martin Luther King walked so Obama could run. Obama...
JAY-Z
One of the reasons inequality gets so deep in this country is that everyone wants to be rich. That&#...
JAY-Z
I don't sit around with my friends and talk about money, ever. On a record, that's different...
JAY-Z
All my businesses are part of the culture, so I have to stay true to whatever I'm feeling at the...
JAY-Z
It's hilarious a lot of times. You have a conversation with someone, and he's like, 'You...
JAY-Z
I'm far from being god, but I work god damn hard.
JAY-Z
The burden of poverty isn't just that you don't always have the things you need, it's th...
JAY-Z
I treat people based on who they really are, not the name. Everyone has to be respectful and be a hu...
JAY-Z
I love what I do, and when you love what you do, you want to be the best at it.
JAY-Z
Your job is to inspire people from your neighborhood to get out.
JAY-Z
I've never looked at myself and said that I need to be a certain way to be around a certain sort...
JAY-Z
The silencing of the rainforests is a double deforestation, not only of trees but a deforestation of...
JAY GRIFFITHS
Belief in oneself and knowing who you are, I mean, that's the foundation for everything great.
JAY-Z
Excellence is being able to perform at a high level over and over again. You can hit a half-court sh...
JAY-Z
Clearly, many branches of science need an exquisite precision of timekeeping and the infinitesimal d...
JAY GRIFFITHS
It was a very intense and stressful situation. There was playing in the Johnny-pump (an opened fire ...
JAY-Z
We are a nation of immigrants, a quilt of many colors, and we've managed over more than two cent...
JAY PARINI
I grew up in Marcy Projects in Brooklyn, and my mom and pop had an extensive record collection, so M...
JAY-Z
The U.S. invaded Vietnam because many in our government - Lyndon Johnson's best and brightest - ...
JAY PARINI
You get to a point in your career, I think, it's not even about money. You're secure. You wa...
JAY CUTLER
We had an old Victrola with the old bulldog they used to have there. The horn would come out.
JAY MCSHANN
Like every art form, there are jealousies and angers and competitiveness in magic. But there's c...
RICKY JAY
No first-time entrepreneur has the business network of contacts needed to succeed. An incubator shou...
JAY SAMIT
By and large we have got to find the good leaders to work with to make sure that we build the streng...
JAY WEATHERILL
The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't f...
JAY LENO
In our consumer confidence surveys, we ask people whether they think government economic policy is g...
JAY SCHMIEDESKAMP
I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out...
JAY LONDON
Montreal is a great town. There's equal parts blue-collar town.
JAY BARUCHEL
You know, Greenwich Village was the traditional bohemia of New York. I wish I could say that was ent...
JAY MCINERNEY
If just the presence of Tidal causes other companies to have better pay structure or to pay more att...
JAY-Z