Unprecedented Action Quotes

Clinton's pardoning of Marc Rich was off-the-wall.

To extraordinary circumstance we must apply extraordinary remedies.

I want to do something different in this league, even as a rookie.

When he hung up on Nancy Reagan, that's when he crossed his final threshold.

Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.

Legislative novelty is not necessarily fatal; there is a first time for everything.

Never in the history of the United States has a state legislature attempted to be the final arbiter of a Presidential election. It’s an insurance policy for George W. Bush. It’s over the line for the Governor to use the state legislature as an arm of the Bush campaign.

What can I do, I asked myself, that is so spectacular that no one will be able to say he had seen it before? The answer was perfectly obvious. I would send a midget up to bat.

It is going to be an experiment of how it works, and I see I have all reasons to believe that it will work fine. But it's a short time. And we also have pushed the envelope here a little beyond what has been done in the past.

It is individuals who must be encouraged to undertake the unprecedented - and unprecedentedly profitable - effort to prevent the annihilation of the human race.

Barack wants to stop all children from working on the farm... Can you imagine this? I just, I can't fathom that. Did you ever think we'd grow up in America and see something like that? Let me take it one step further. He wants to disallow the 4-H from training children to work on a farm.

The Trump administration has been characterized by adhocracy during its initial months. The initiative limiting immigration is a case in point. The new policy was not vetted fully within the administration - indeed, then-Acting Attorney General Sally Yates first read the decision after the text of the new executive order was published online.

We're in an historic drought, and that demands unprecedented action.

I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.

Before Missy, there was no comparison to what Missy was doing.

And because nobody's done it before, they haven't made up rules to stop anyone doing that again, yet.

I took the unprecedented step of asking that the State Department make all my work-related emails public for everyone to see.

There are certain emergencies of nations, in which expedients, that in the ordinary state of things ought to be forborne, become essential to the public weal.

Rarely in the history of law have so few undone so much, so quickly.

That,' he said, with almost religious fever, 'was the coolest thing you have ever done. In fact, that may have been the coolest thing you ever will do. Your entire existence has been moving toward one shining moment, George, and that was the moment when you thought, 'Hey, why don't I just go over the zombies?