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 Richard J. Needham
People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.
Love is a fever which marriage puts to bed and cures.
People are like birds - from a distance beautiful: from close up those sharp beaks those beady little eyes.
Power is a drug on which the politicians are hooked. They buy it from the voters using the voters' own money.
God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers and severely by answering them.
