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He's said he will appoint possible successors and let them compete over who is the best reformer.

Robert Feldman

It would be disrespectful to discuss successors now but the key thing would be to find the best man for the job. If he's English, then so be it.

Brian Barwick

(Common law) stands as a monument slowly raised, like a coral reef, from the minute accretions of past individuals, of whom each built upon the relics which his predecessors left, and in his turn left a foundation upon which his successors might work.

Learned Hand

No chronology of Soviet atrocities can convey the crushing of the human spirit under Lenin and his successors. But the retelling of 70 years of grisly facts leaves little doubt that what we face today in Soviet communism is, indeed, an 'evil empire'.

Michael Johns

I think one of your successors 100 years from now is always going to ask us to focus on the original (constitutional) document.

John Eastman

NEWTONIAN, adj. Pertaining to a philosophy of the universe invented by Newton, who discovered that an apple will fall to the ground, but was unable to say why. His successors and disciples have advanced so far as to be able to say when.

Ambrose Bierce

Since last Friday, we've known that Chirac will not run for another mandate. It seemed absurd that he should do so anyway, but now the age factor has been multiplied by the health factor, and that makes it totally impossible, and that's why the fight has erupted between his successors.

Dominique Moisi