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“Mr. President, call the toady of American imperialism to order.”

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Author:Nikita Khrushchev

“All reporters have a stripe of irreverence in their mental makeup. It usually keeps them from turning into toadies, a danger for those who associate, even in an adversarial way, with the rich and powerful.”

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Author:Carolyn Hart

“Did a sense of shame ever reside in our Republican toadies? You can't stop people who are never embarrassed by themselves. Will's readiness to turn a sow's ear into a silk purse can be cited as world class sycophancy.”

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Author:Norman Mailer

“We admire people who work hard, who are objective and thorough. We detest office politicians, toadies, bullies, and pompous asses. We abhor ruthlessness. The way up our ladder is open to everybody. In promoting people to top jobs, we are influenced as much by their character as anything else.”

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Author:David Ogilvy

“The besetting sin of able men is impatience of contradiction and of criticism. Even those who do their best to resist the temptation, yield to it almost unconsciously and become the tools of toadies and flatterers. "Authorities," "disciples," and "schools" are the curse of science and do more to interfere with the work of the scientific spirit than all its enemies.”

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Book:The Essence of T. H. Huxley: Selections Form His Writings

Source: The Essence of T. H. Huxley: Selections Form His Writings

“Purim is the birthday of the first Schutz-Jude , the first Jewish toady to foreign royalty.”

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Author:I. L. Peretz

“The Iraqi is really not whacky toady, perhaps, even tacky. When they gave him the word, he gave us the bird and joined with the Arabs, by cracky!”

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Author:Dean Acheson

“Corporate polluters, their phony think tanks and political toadies like to marginalize environmentalists as tree huggers, or radicals. But there is nothing radical about clean air or water.”

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Author:Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

“The most 'popular,' the most 'successful' writers among us (for a brief period, at least) are, 99 times out of a hundred, persons of mere effrontery-in a word, busy-bodies, toadies, quacks.”

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Author:Edgar Allan Poe

“I always use my clients' products. This is not toady-ism, but elementary good manners.”

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Book:Confessions of an advertising man

Source: Confessions of an advertising man

“The next time you see John Stossel or Glenn Beck or Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity, these flat-Earthers, these corporate toadies, lying to you, lying to the American public, and telling you that global warming doesn't exist. You send an e-mail to their advertisers and tell them that you're not going to buy their products anymore.”

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Author:Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

“The bad poet is a toady mimicking nature.”

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Book:The sorrows of Priapus: consisting of The sorrows of Priapus and The carnal myth

Source: The sorrows of Priapus: consisting of The sorrows of Priapus and The carnal myth