Because you basically won a close re-election, your first task is to unify the city. And it's done not with words but with actions, by reaching out, to the supporters of your opponent as well as to reassure your own supporters.
When I write from the point of view of a child or a young person, I am trying to tell the truth as an adult voice sometimes cannot. We are so often wrapped in the garment of trying to reassure ourselves that we are not afraid.
Possibly the defining development of postmodern politics - naturally, an American one - is the separation of personality from ideology. If you are likeable, or at least not disagreeable, if you can strike a personal bond with the electorate, if you reassure rather than disrupt, it doesn't really matter what you stand for.
I thought the Pence selection ought to reassure the right-of-center voters that a Trump administration would be a right-of-center administration.
I want to reassure our NATO allies that if any of them get attacked, we'll be there to defend them.
My agenda is not to reassure anybody outside Lebanon.
I'm aware of the urgency to give Italy a government in the fullness of its powers, to reassure the citizens, and to face with utmost commitment and determination international, economic and social priorities.
One is sometimes meant to reassure the reader that she's qualified to write about a certain topic.
Whether you want to entertain or to provoke, to break hearts or reassure them, what you bring to your writing must consist of your longings and disappointments.
It's always nice to have another filmmaker to reassure you that you are making a good quality film.
