Ed Rollins Quotes

I think Naomi Klein was very astute with her book 'Shock Doctrine.' We make money on disaster.

I got my heart broken. My spirit got shattered and mutilated. I will not be coming back from this. I don’t want to.

I didn't want to work at Pizza Hut and I didn't want to join the Army. So I just decided to go out and be awesome.

Guns are part of the American identity.

I believe in North, South, East, West, The seasons, life and death, geography. That which is provable, absolute and most of all, functional. I believe in things that can kill me.

I don't really have any women in my life, actually those two - the women in my life are two married women who work at my office.

Russia is tough. The history, the land, the people - brutal.

Horror jolts me when I look at one of you and see a pair of beautiful eyes that make me think your mind might contain a world that could hold me as the bolts shake loose and fly from my frame.

Throughout history, knowledge rises and falls, ebbs and flows. What once was known is forgotten again, lost in time, sometimes for centuries, only to be rediscovered ages later.

A rose trapped inside a fist.

To anger female voters in America is to tread on the tiger's tail. Women turn out in huge numbers, and they are well aware of how their bodies work and what they need.

The material you work with is that which you will come to resemble. That which you work against will always work against you, including yourself.

A lot of Americans don't have a passport, never will have a passport. Not only will they not travel, they don't want to travel.

When people hold you in high esteem, it's very delicate relationship. When they meet you they're putting all their chips up. It's make or break.

I just travel the world with my backpack and my cameras and a bunch of Clif bars.

I think more tolerance, more people having more access to a chance to be literate, and a chance to stay healthy makes for a more peaceful planet.

Those who seek to profit by division don't stand a chance.

It is amazing to hear grown-up people rationalize homophobia and discrimination. The lengths they go to trying to prove their points take reason to its breaking point.

Musicians should not play music. Music should play musicians.

Enough Americans saw fit to give president Obama a second term. I don't think there will be many people keeping their Romney/Ryan bumper stickers on their cars.

America was cool with Saddam Hussein when he was killing Iranians.

The Bad Seeds are a band I will travel a great distance to see whenever possible.

So, one way or another, I found myself in a few movies. I take it seriously when I'm on the set, but I don't take myself seriously as an actor.

With any advent in technology, any technological innovation, there is the good and the bad.

The history of apartheid-era South Africa is incredibly sad and at times infuriatingly incomprehensible.

I find it takes a lot of strength to endure myself.

For many years, I tried to make New Year's resolutions. I made lists and shot for great heights: I would show altruism and exert moral strength, patience and all those other great attributes.

Most Americans are very cool people.

War is very sad and small life is pathetically fragile at times.

I get along with Australians really well. Everyone's usually really cool, and it's always a drag to leave.

Now and then, someone is able to look at an empty space, conclude it would be a great place to start a revolution, and bravely go forward.

I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a teacher, as a citizen as a friend.

We're at peak oil, peak water, peak resources, and so either we figure it out and let science lead or we head down a very bad, dark trail to where a lot of people aren't going to make it.

I tend to gravitate to the darkest or most obscure part of any venue in an effort to have my own space to experience the music on my own, free from unwanted conversations and other distractions.

I am a person who thinks about the music first in trying to achieve something musically valid.

I don't want you to be my fan. I want you to be mine.

The strong were always eating the weak.

Kids need parents who love and support them unconditionally, full stop.

I want to change things for the better, just like everybody else.

I wonder how Colin Powell sleeps at night. I would like to have a word with him because he lied. He lied. He lied to me. He lied to my face through the camera at the U.N.

I'm not artistic nor am I all that creative.

Motivation has always been a fascinating factor when considering a touring artist, especially when the years stack up. What keeps one out there year after year?

Sometimes when you meet a musician you are a fan of, and he or she isn't the friendliest person, you walk away from the experience wondering if you will ever be able to listen to their music again.

To burn a CDR of music you like to give as a gift to someone you wish to become closer to is a cold, moist-palmed, mouth-breathing bummer.

Never once have I thought that Social Security would be something that would ever be available to me.

Rock is ironic in that, up to a certain point, you can get better and better at it if you don't mind possibly looking more and more ridiculous.

We city dwellers, we residents of Los Angeles and the surrounding areas, are for the most part urbanized to some extent. We know deadlines, start times and traffic.

Lou Reed's music has been in the lives of millions of people all over the world for decades. He had a truly universal presence and was respected by musicians across all genres.

And I love the hate mail I get, the unsigned, misspelled letters I get telling me to go back to Russia or wherever.

Nothing moves me more than the history of the United States.