Jiang Qing
Chinese political figure and wife of Mao Zedong (1914-1991)
Bob Livingston
American politician and lobbyist
Robert Linlithgow Livingston Jr.is an American lobbyist and politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Louisiana from 1977 to 1999.
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Robert Linlithgow Livingston Jr.is an American lobbyist and politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Louisiana from 1977 to 1999. A Republican, he was chosen as Newt Gingrich’s successor as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, a position he declined following revelations of an extramarital affair. He served as a U.S. Representative from Louisiana from 1977 to 1999 and as the Chairman of the Appropriations Committee from 1995 to 1999. During his final years in Congress, Livingston was a strong supporter of Bill Clinton’s impeachment. He is currently a Washington, D.C.-based lobbyist. Livingston’s memoir, The Windmill Chaser: Triumphs and Less in American Politics, was published in September 2018.
11 Quotes by Bob Livingston
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I had never, ever drunk beer in high school, and by the time I got to Tech we were having these parties out in the cotton fields and getting so drunk. I was the champion beer drinker; suddenly I was pouring it down my throat… Insane! Insane!
Bob LivingstonAmerican politician and lobbyist
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The Vietnam War was happening, but Lubbock was… They put a pinch on it.
Bob LivingstonAmerican politician and lobbyist
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We’d play at the Ambassador’s house for an invited group of dignitaries from the government that might have gone to school in America; to the U.S. Consulate that invites certain people that they’re trying to target.
Bob LivingstonAmerican politician and lobbyist
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I don’t wanta do any Blues or any sad songs.
Bob LivingstonAmerican politician and lobbyist
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I stepped back from being out front to playing bass. So we started switching: I’d play bass on one song, we’d switch on the next song; I’d play piano… we’d play mandolin.
Bob LivingstonAmerican politician and lobbyist
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Education, for me, has helped me in my music.
Bob LivingstonAmerican politician and lobbyist
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We didn’t know about the rest of the world. We just knew the pictures that we saw on TV, and it was so different that we wanted to try to imitate that, to a certain extent.
Bob LivingstonAmerican politician and lobbyist
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I wasn’t really living anywhere… I was just kinda hanging out. I would live from week to week in places.
Bob LivingstonAmerican politician and lobbyist
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I’d play with these Indian players, the tabla and sitar.
Bob LivingstonAmerican politician and lobbyist
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The Austin music scene is the reason why so many of them moved here.
Bob LivingstonAmerican politician and lobbyist
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Here I was, this good guy that played football; I was gonna go play in college but I had a bad senior year. But I played guitar in assemblies whenever I could.
Bob LivingstonAmerican politician and lobbyist