“I think there's a suspicion in the South of people putting on airs. You see it in most successful Southern politicians, but you also see it in someone like Richard Petty, who may be a multimillionaire stock car driver, but he's also beloved because he has a nice self-deprecatory way about him.” PeopleThinkingWayMaySelfSuccessfulNiceAirCarPoliticianSouthBelovedDriversSouthernSuspicionPetty Author:John Shelton Reed
“You may delay, but time will not.” LifeInspirationalMayWarMotivationalTimePoliticianPositivityProductivityMy TimeAweMore TimeTime ManagementWasting TimeProcrastinationDelayWeight LossCarpe DiemThings DonePoor RichardTime PassingShort TimeBest TimesProject ManagementTotal WarWasted TimeProcrastinatingLife TimeTime And MoneySeize The DayDon't Waste Your TimeWasting My TimeWasted LifeAwe InspiringTime FliesSeizingTime Of DayStop ProcrastinationManaging TimeLife And TimeLost TimeGetting StartedWasting Your TimeSeize The OpportunityTime Of Your LifeProcrastinatorFunny ProcrastinationTime Is MoneyWasted My TimeLazy ManHard Work And DeterminationLack Of TimeNot Wasting TimeWasted Time In LifeLosing TimeDays Like ThisTiming And LifeContinual Growth Book:Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom Source: Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom
“It's not just politicians. Any spokesman for a vested interest is well schooled in how to say what it is they wish to say, which may bear no relation at all to what you've asked them.” WellsMayWishInterestBearsPoliticianRelationSchooledVested Interests Author:Jeremy Paxman
“An intellectual may be interested in ideas and policies for their own sake, but a politician's interest is exclusively in the question of whether an idea's time has come.” MayIdeasInterestPolicyPoliticianIntellectualSake Author:Michael Ignatieff
“The main aim of education should be to send children out into the world with a reasonably sized anthology in their heads so that, while seated on the lavatory, waiting in doctors' surgeries, on stationary trains or watching interviews with politicians, they may have something interesting to think about.” ThinkingWorldShouldMayChildrenWaitingInterestingEducationPoliticianDoctorsAimTrainInterviewsSurgeryAnthologySomething InterestingStationaryAim Of Education Author:John Mortimer
“In two thousand years all our generals and politicians may be forgotten, but Einstein and Madame Curie and Bernard Shaw and Stravinsky will keep the memory of our age alive.” YearsMayTwoAgeMemoriesAlivePoliticianThousandForgottenImmortalityThousand YearsBernard ShawStravinskyMadame Curie Author:Anthony Burgess
“I am one of a rare breed of true politicians who definitely say what they may or may not mean with absolute certainty.” MayMeanPoliticianAbsolutesCertaintyAbsolute Certainty Author:Anthony Eden
“At the risk of repetition let me say again that my plea is not for immunity to, but for the most unsparing exposure of, the politician who betrays his trust, of the big business man who makes or spends his fortune in illegitimate or corrupt ways. There should be a resolute effort to hunt every such man out of the position he has disgraced. Expose the crime, and hunt down the criminal; but remember that even in the case of crime, if it is attacked in sensational, lurid, and untruthful fashion, the attack may do more damage to the public mind than the crime itself.” IfsMenWayShouldMindMayBigsRememberEffortBusinessCasesRiskFashionCrimePositionPoliticianLet MeFortuneCriminalsDamageBetrayRepetitionHuntsExposureBig BusinessResoluteImmunitySensationalBusiness Man Author:Theodore Roosevelt
“When a politician says, concerning an issue involving science, that the debate is over, you may be sure the debate is rolling on and not going swimmingly for his side.” MaySidesIssuesPoliticianDebateOver YouRollingInvolving Author:George Will
“When I see the worsening degeneracy in our politicians, our media, our educators, and our intelligentsia, I can't help wondering if the day may yet come when the only thing that can save this country is a military coup.” IfsMayI CanCountryHelpingWonderMediaMilitaryPoliticianEducatorCoups Author:Thomas Sowell