I would be surprised to see the White House scaling back on anything. That would be an admission they are operating from a position of weakness.
In the White House, you can be on the pitcher's mound or you can be in the catcher's position. Put points on the board. Show people you can govern. Deliver on what you said you were going to deliver on.
Somehow, some way, incredibly enough, good writing ultimately gets recognized. If you're a really good writer and deserve that honored position, then by God, you'll write, and you'll be read.
Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.
This wasn't a position she wanted to be in. And yet. . . yet she knew that she was going to do it anyway.
My father was very political. But he told me, "Be very careful when you get into politics, because there's no black and white. There's an in-between in everything. So look at that side, don't take one point, because then you are negating half of the other people. Try to find the logic on a problem, something that you believe, and take the position that you believe, but be very careful about it. " So I was very well trained in that aspect.
If we ask, for instance, whether the position of the electron remains the same, we must say 'no'; if we ask whether the electron's position changes with time, we must say 'no'; if we ask whether the electron is at rest, we must say 'no'; if we ask whether it is in motion, we must say 'no'.
The best place for a leader isn't always at the top position. It is the place where they can serve the best and add the most value to other people.
Our objective is to position Nissan in the top rank of the car industry. Until we get there, there will be no rest.
The theory of ramification is one of pure colligation, for it takes no account of magnitude or position; geometrical lines are used, but these have no more real bearing on the matter than those employed in genealogical tables have in explaining the laws of procreation.
My political position is that I'm happy to be alive and in North America.
Being promoted to a top position in your organisation, or even being elected to public office, does not suddenly endow you with financial literacy, if you did not acquire and develop it, earlier in your life.
For me, a really radical position for journalism to take is to stop being cynical. Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.
I was thrust into a really lofty, enviable, but isolated position with 'Princess Diaries' in that I could carry a film before I really knew if I could act.
I would like to extend to you our deep appreciation and thanks for the position the United States has taken in support of the democratization process that has taken place in Tunisia, in Egypt, and what is attempting to take place in Libya.
The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism.
Most people think of leadership as a position and therefore don't see themselves as leaders.
I am a better hitter with runners in scoring position.
Leadership has less to do with position than it does with disposition.
Actors put ourselves in awkward positions all the time.