"I have developed a very strong partiality for the dead: they don’t talk back, they don’t sue, and they don’t have angry relatives."
― Ron Chernow
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Relationship
More From Ron Chernow
- "The public has lost faith in the ability of Social Security and Medicare to provide for old age. They’ve lost faith in the banking system and in conventional medical insurance."
- "The Great Inflation of the 1970s destroyed faith in paper assets, because if you held a bond, suddenly the bond was worth much less money than it was before."
- "Partly because his life ended before the age of 50, Hamilton was defined by the other founding fathers, and he managed, with amazing consistency, to alienate most of them."
More In Relationship
- "First, President Reagan was not enthusiastic. But I built up a relationship with him in other areas and then persuaded him that this was important to us and to me, and that we had to at least be in the process of looking at this seriously."― Brian Mulroney
- "The relationship of black Americans to Obama is sociologically riveting."― Andrew Sullivan
- "Well we have a good working relationship with Microsoft at the development level. But let’s not kid ourselves, this is a company with enormous resources and talented people, and there is a certain pride that comes along with that for them and for us."― John W. Thompson