On the night of New Year’s Day, I thought of a wonderful New Year’s resolution for the men who run the world: get to know the people who only live in it.
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Martha Gellhorn
The difference between a politician and a statesman is that a politician thinks about the next election while the statesman think about the next generation.
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James Freeman Clarke
He was a consummate politician-- which is to say he was given to expedient speech and lacked even a vestigial spine.
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Nick Taylor
Nothing so removes a man from his inner, mysterious, real life, nothing makes him so deaf and dumb as the picture of these petty passions and petty crimes which calls itself the world of politics.
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Vladimir Odoyevsky
Only one thing to it: a strong stomach. The guts to gladhand a man you're going to stab in the back; pledge allegiance to principles you stomp on every day; righteously denounce some despot in the press and sell him arms under the table. The...
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Anonymous
More Quotes By Marshall Thornton
I’m not as Catholic as I used to be. I find that I can’t believe in a God who would punish anyone for the way he made them. A God who punishes is something mankind created as a way to hurt and control one another....
Before VCRs, people used to decorate the tops of their TVs with family photos.
People say love is the international language. I'd say jealousy and anger are also pretty articulate.
Politicians and low profiles rarely went together.