#popular

Presidents with strong nerves are decisive. They don't balk at unpopular decisions. They are willing to make people angry. Bush had strong nerves. Clinton, who passed up a chance to eliminate Osama bin Laden, did not. Obama is a people pleaser, a trait not normally associated with nerves of steel. ↗

— Fred Barnes

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Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet. ↗

— Dave Barry

#catch #count #did #increasing #metric

Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough. ↗

— Dave Barry

#enough #feel #lethal #people #popular

True popularity comes from acts of kindness rather than acts of stupidity. ↗

— Bo Bennett

#comes #kindness #popularity #rather #stupidity

I am clearly more popular than Reagan. I am in my third term. Where's Reagan? Gone after two! Defeated by George Bush and Michael Dukakis no less. ↗

— Marion Berry

#am #bush #clearly #defeated #george

I learned to stand up for myself at school where I was never too popular. ↗

— Sophie Ellis Bextor

#learned #myself #never #popular #school

Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection. ↗

— Neal Boortz

#free #free speech #meant #needs #popular

The really important victory of the civil rights movement was that it made racism unpopular, whereas a generation ago at the turn of the last century, you had to embrace racism to get elected to anything. ↗

— Carol Moseley Braun

#anything #century #civil #civil rights #civil rights movement

No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion. ↗

— Carrie Chapman Catt

#binding #custom #ever #law #more

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#fiction #journalism #life #mainly #newspapers