“Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.” MenCharacterPoliticalEconomyIndustryActivitySkillsPropertyBallots Author:Booker T. Washington
“Want to accomplish something, any-damn-thing? Sharpen your political skills!” WantPoliticalSkillsAccomplishDamnDamn Things Author:Tom Peters
“The people who are rising, they're super ambitious. They have relationships with people above them. They have relationships, hierarchical, sort of people below them. A lot of people do not have relationships horizontally. And there's a lot of people who reach high political offices, but who are weirdly lonely, weirdly lacking in intimacy skills.” PeoplePoliticalSkillsOfficeLonelyIntimacyRisingAmbitiousLacking Author:Mark Shields
“American cities are kind of difficult contexts to work in. They are politically complex. There are a lot of different interest groups. It takes immense political skill to get anything done at all.” KindDifferentDonePoliticalDifficultInterestCitiesGroupsSkillsComplexesImmenseInterest GroupsAmerican Cities Author:William J. Mitchell
“The belief, not only of the socialist but of those so-called liberals who are diligently preparing the way for them is that by due skill an ill working humanity may be framed into well-working initiations. It is delusion. The defective natures of citizens will show themselves in bad acting of whatever social structure they are arranged into. There is no political alchemy by which you can get golden conduct out of laden instincts.” WayWellsMayShowsPoliticalHumanityBeliefSocialActingCitizensSkillsStructureInstinctIllDuesGoldenDelusionSocialistPreparingAlchemyFramedInitiationDefectiveSocial StructureBad Acting Author:Herbert Spencer