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“A valuable qualification of a modern politician seems to be a capacity for concealing or explaining away the truth.”

Seems Modern Politician Capacity Valuable Explaining Qualifications Concealing

Book:My own times

Source: My own times

“Why is it that when people have no capacity for private usefulness they should be so anxious to serve the public?”

People Should Politician Capacity Anxious Usefulness

Book:The Imperialist

Source: The Imperialist

“On a throne at the center of a sense of humor sits a capacity for irony. All wit rests on a cheerful awareness of life's incongruities. It is a gentling awareness, and no politician without it should be allowed near power.”

Should Awareness Politician Capacity Wit Irony Sense Of Humor Thrones Cheerful Incongruity Awareness Of Life

Author:George Will

“A small politician, of low capacity and mean surroundings, proud to act as the servile tool of men worse than himself but also stronger and abler.”

Men Mean Proud Politician Lows Capacity Tools Stronger Surroundings

Book:Life of Thomas Hart Benton

Source: Life of Thomas Hart Benton

“Politicians generally form alliances and not friendships. Individuals and institutions achieve their ends through continual barter. But deals are not bonds. Indeed, intense emotional involvement with anything - with issues, ideology, a woman, even a family - can be a handicap, not only consuming valuable time, but more importantly, reducing flexibility and the capacity for detached calculation needed to take maximum advantage of continually changing circumstances.”

Source: Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream

“In Canada, what I find what people are afraid of or worried about is politicians who denigrate the importance of the resource sectors, which are the basis of our trading capacity.”

People Politician Resources Capacity Importance Bases Worried Canada Trading

Author:Preston Manning

“I think that many citizens understand how our system works, or rather, fails to work, for structural reasons. But who has the capacity and the incentives to bring change? The banks and other corporations love the system because it allows them to buy legislation that serves their own interests even at the expense of the vast majority of citizens. Incumbent politicians love the system because it allows them to raise millions of dollars toward defending their seats.”

Thinking Reason Interest Millions Failing Citizens Politician Capacity Raises Majority Dollars Corporations Seats Expenses Legislation Incentives Incumbents

Author:Thomas Pogge