Successors Quotes

Only when God was said to have died did various leaders, professions and sectors risk pushing themselves forward as successors. - John Ralston Saul

Of presidents leaving office with respect for their successors. I'm certain that President Clinton will want to follow that. - Ari Fleischer

Nobody talked about women as successors [to male anchors] for ages. To have a solo female anchor of the evening news is a milestone, there's no question about it. ... It's crazy at this time in our history, but there it is. - Cokie Roberts

No chronology of Soviet atrocities can convey the crushing of the human spirit under Lenin and his successors. But the retelling of 70 years of grisly facts leaves little doubt that what we face today in Soviet communism is, indeed, an 'evil empire'. - Michael Johns

NEWTONIAN, adj. Pertaining to a philosophy of the universe invented by Newton, who discovered that an apple will fall to the ground, but was unable to say why. His successors and disciples have advanced so far as to be able to say when. - Ambrose Bierce

Never has any one been less a priest than Jesus, never a greater enemy of forms, which stifle religion under the pretext of protecting it. By this we are all his disciples and his successors; by this he has laid the eternal foundation-stone of true religion; and if religion is essential to humanity, he has by this deserved the Divine rank the world has accorded him. - Ernest Renan

It's very unlikely that ECB policy is going to change with any of the likely successors. - Steven Englander

It would be disrespectful to discuss successors now but the key thing would be to find the best man for the job. If he's English, then so be it. - Brian Barwick

It is not right for us to think about successors. Kings have successors but we don't. It is the people that choose. - Boris Yeltsin