Cajole Quotes

Well over an hour here . . . while the (Republican) leadership variously cajoled, bribed, browbeat, et cetera, a few Republicans who wanted to have it both ways - who wanted to give people the impression they were opposed to (the Central American Free Trade Agreement) while they were ready to cave in for sufficient inducement. - George Washington

We must not be frightened nor cajoled/ into accepting evil as deliverance from evil./ We must go on struggling to be human,/ though monsters of abstractions/ police and threaten us. - Robert Hayden

We knew we had to do it right now and not delay. So I threatened, cajoled and pleaded this winter, and our guys seem to have really responded. They spend a lot of time in the weight room and I think that shows. - Terry Hoeppner

We are not playing a mediating role. We will encourage and cajole, but we will not mediate. - Sean McCormack

This tower wants to sit down based on gravity. And we're going to cajole it do what it wants to do anyway. - Mark Loizeaux

They obviously have to be prodded, pushed and cajoled into doing their job. - Keith Wright

The program cajoles people because they can see other relatives have already gotten their recipes in. Even for people who aren't technologically savvy, the technology makes it easy to submit their recipes. - Bill Rice

The job of a leader, the job of a governor, the job of a president, is to get the people in the room and bang enough heads together and rub enough arms and cajole enough to have them put the country and the state's greater interest ahead of their own personal partisan interest. That's what we did in New Jersey and that's the model for America. - Chris Christie