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“Once your name becomes well known, politicians come courting.”

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Book:Pride: the Charley Pride story

Source: Pride: the Charley Pride story

“Pakistanis can't trust. They've seen in history that people, particularly politicians, are corrupt. And they're misguided by people in the name of Islam. They're told: 'Malala is not a Muslim, she's not in purdah, she's working for America.”

People America Names Politician Islam Misguided Malala Purdah

Author:Malala Yousafzai

“Should hostilities once break out between Japan and the United States, it is not enough that we take Guam and the Philippines, nor even Hawaii and San Francisco. To make victory certain, we would have to march into Washington and dictate the terms of peace in the White House. I wonder if our politicians, among whom armchair arguments about war are being glibly bandied about in the name of state politics, have confidence as to the final outcome and are prepared to make the necessary sacrifices.”

“People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher -- a Roosevelt, a Tolstoi, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.”

Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

“I don't use names or captions for my many portraits of politicians and authors for newspapers. The drawing has to be self-explanatory, so I spend a lot of time sketching to find an idea and an angle that is clear.”

Ideas Self Use Names Clear Politician Drawing Newspapers Portraits Angle Sketching Caption

Author:Siegfried Woldhek

“In every community there are little knots of fantastic extremists who loudly proclaim that they are striving for righteousness, and who, in reality, do their feeble best for unrighteousness. Just as the upright politician should hold in peculiar scorn the man who makes the name of politician a reproach and a shame, so the genuine reformer should realize that the cause he champions is especially jeopardized by the mock reformer who does what he can to make reform a laughingstock among decent men.”

Source: The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses

“I suppose, as a politician, I should be content, for the Canada Pension Plan certainly put my name in Canada's history books, and in italics.”

Should Book Names Plans Politician Canada Pension History Books Pension Plans

Book:Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage

Source: Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage

“The unexpressed aim of every politician is to influence events that history books will record his name - and spell it right.”

Book Names Records Influence Events Politician Aim Spells History Books

Book:Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage

Source: Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage

“A politician weakly and amiably in the right is no match for a politician tenaciously and pugnaciously in the wrong. You cannot, by tying an opinion, to a man's tongue, make him the representative of that opinion; and at the close of any battle for principles, his name will be found neither among the dead nor among the wounded, but among the missing.”

Men Found Politics Names Opinion Principles Missing Politician Battle Tongue Representatives Wounded

Author:Edwin Percy Whipple

“The very name of a politician, a statesman, is sure to cause terror and hatred; it has always connected with it the ideas of treachery, cruelty, fraud, and tyranny.”

Ideas Politics Names Causes Politician Hatred Terror Connected Tyranny Cruelty Fraud Statesmen Treachery

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)

“Without mentioning any names, I looked at pretty much every story that may come to your mind about a politician on the rise who was stopped short or dragged down by personal flaws and then became just a media storm. I see this as a thing that continues to happen in America and I wanted to say something about that.”

Mind May Stories Happens Wanted America Names Media Politician Storm Flaws

Author:Nicolas Cage

“The heroes who emerged first from the rubble of the September 11 attacks were not politicians or generals and they didnt become household names in the months that followed. They were, instead, public servants who continued to work day in and day out to protect our communities and ensure hometown security.”

Firsts Names Community Security Months Hero Politician Protect Servant Household September September 11 Our Community Hometown Public Servants Rubble Work Day

Author:Ben Nelson

“My biggest influence growing up was Mad magazine, which is a very text-heavy form of visual satire. I didn’t grow up wanting to draw donkeys and elephants with the names of politicians written across them.”

Form Names Grows Growing Up Growing Written Influence Politician Draws Mad Heavy Magazines Visuals Satire Elephants Donkey

Author:Tom Tomorrow

“The cold war provided the perfect excuse for Western governments to plunder and exploit the Third World in the name of freedom; to rig its elections, bribe its politicians, appoint its tyrants and, by every sophisticated means of persuasion and interference, stunt the emergence of young democracies in the name of democracy.”

“The most common thing that real reporters say to me is, "I wish I could say what you say." What I don't understand is, why can't they say what I say, even in their own way? Does that mean they want to be able to name certain bald contradictions or hypocrisies that politicians have?”

Way Want Mean Doe Real Able Certain Names Wish Common Politician Hypocrisy Contradiction Reporters Common Things

Author:Stephen Colbert

“The global warming scare has provided a field day for politicians and others who wish to control our lives. After all, only the imagination limits the kind of laws and restrictions that can be written in the name of saving the planet.”

Kind Law Names Wish Imagination Our Lives Written Fields Planets Politician Limits Saving Global Warming Scare Restriction

Author:Walter E. Williams

“The din of politicians speechifying about the war, the faux moral posturing of opinion-makers who claim to speak in the name of 'the troops,' everything that Iraq has come to represent in the American imagination - it all melts away in the 115-degree heat. What's left is the machinery of a war that, having been called into being by civilians, no longer bears a relation to anything they say.”

War Names Left Speak Imagination Moral Opinion Bears Politician Degrees Claims Relation Iraq Heat Makers Troops Machinery Civilians Faux

Author:Lawrence Kaplan

“There's politics. When you talk about Asia - no one really wants to approach that full-force because it's very thin ice. No one wants to harm the relations with Asia, where most of those products are going to and being exported to. Many of the local institutions and politicians and veterinarians are involved in illegal trade. To crack that down, it's a big crime and big names to reveal.”

Want Bigs Names Force Crime Products Involved Politician Approach Relation Institutions Trade Harm Locals Ice Illegal Cracks Asia Veterinarian

Author:Veronika Varekova

“Many of the local institutions and politicians and veterinarians are involved in illegal trade. To crack that down, it's a big crime and big names to reveal.”

Bigs Names Crime Involved Politician Institutions Trade Locals Illegal Cracks Veterinarian

Author:Veronika Varekova

“I'm going to focus on people and what they need, not on name calling between politicians.”

People Needs Names Focus Politician Calling Name Calling

Author:Charles Schumer

“Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.”

Source: The Wicked Wit of John F. Kennedy