The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish. —Virgil Thomson More about this quote Tags: politics style music USA America Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent. —Robert Copeland More about this quote Tags: politics action committees decision-making Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim. —James Reston More about this quote Tags: politics foreign affairs diplomacy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies. —Dalton Camp More about this quote Tags: politics Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
That's the trouble with a politician's life-somebody is always interrupting it with an election. —Will Rogers More about this quote Tags: politics elections Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'. —Larry Hardiman More about this quote Tags: politics humor cynicism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequence of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society. —Margaret Mead More about this quote Tags: politics USA laws consequences Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. —Margaret Mead More about this quote Tags: politics change social change community Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. —George Bernard Shaw More about this quote Tags: politics birth patriotism loyalty Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The moment a man gets money, so many men are trying to get it away from him that in a little while he regards the whole human race as his enemy, and he generally thinks that they could be rich too if they would only attend to business as he has. Understand, I am not blaming these people. . . . We must remember that these rich men are naturally produced. Do not blame them. Blame the system. —Robert Ingersoll More about this quote Tags: politics money wealth enemy systems Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is hardly a political question in the United States which doesn't sooner or later turn into a judicial one. —Alexis de Tocqueville More about this quote Tags: politics Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. —Ambrose Bierce More about this quote Tags: politics Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Man is by nature a political animal. —Aristotle More about this quote Tags: politics Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage. —Dwight D. Eisenhower More about this quote Tags: politics Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. —Ernest Benn More about this quote Tags: politics Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email