Peter Orszag Quotes

Harvard's Kennedy School of Government asked me to serve as a fellow at its Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy. After my varied and celebrated career in television, movies, publishing, and the lucrative world of corporate speaking, being a fellow at Harvard seemed, frankly, like a step down.

I guess I would use my son's word: cool. It was cool to work in the White House.

I've got it all: I'm good-looking, I'm educated, I can sing, and I can play rugby. Ridiculous, isn't it?

There's no higher honor, in my estimation, than being asked to serve in the White House.

The guys who play at a high level probably think they are better than they are, and that's all right.

You have seen in football that if you start to think you are the 'Special One,' or that you are better than the others, that is the moment when you will be beaten.

I have always been arrogantly confident about the work I have done.

Frankly, my head can never be bloated.

I never set out to work in the White House.

It's very hard to argue with someone who thinks he is God because he makes a lot of money.

I think once you start to think that you're the man, and you know it all, and your style is unbeatable and stuff like that, that's when you get caught and clipped and get humbled really fast.

Probably because the first two albums were so successful, we got a little bit smug.

I think about the people that I've seen change because they believed in their own hype. I just never want that to happen to me.

I'm keenly aware of the Pride coming before the Fall . . . but I really do like what I've been able to do here.

In terms of going into the West Wing, I will do whatever the president-elect and the vice president-elect - I worked with Mike Pence for 10 years - they believe is my best and highest use for them.

Pride is both a virtue and a vice.

I went to Oxford University - but I've never let that hold me back.

Boasting is the outward form of the inner condition of pride.

I have no use for humility. I am a fellow with an exceptional talent.

A little arrogance (or even a lot) isn't such a bad thing, although your mother undoubtedly told you different. Mine did. "Pride goeth before a fall, Stephen", she said... and then I found out - right around the age that is 19 x 2 - that eventually you fall down, anyway.

Pride is innate in beauty, and haughtiness is the companion of the fair.

It is wonderful, for almost all his actions may be traced to pride;-and pride has often been his best friend.

If you have the choice between humble and cocky, go with cocky. There's always time to be humble later, once you've been proven horrendously, irrevocably wrong.

Why's it so sunny?" she repeated. Zooey observed her rather narrowly. "I bring the sun wherever I go, buddy," he said.

Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God, afraid of me.