Quotes about "Politics & Government"

After getting recognized in public from my picture on our pretzel bag, I can understand not wanting to be in the public eye. It has given me a public persona I had always avoided as a child. I do it because it's for a good cause. ”

I spent my whole life avoiding the public eye. At these food shows, I'm open quarry again. ”

Since I was 18, I've been under orders from magazines and newspapers - chiefly The New York Times and Rolling Stone - to step into the lives of musicians, actors, and artists, and somehow find out who they really are underneath the mask they present to the public. But I didn't always succeed. ”

I've noticed a pattern in stars that start acting out in public. Every one of them felt like they grew up without love. ”

World War II had been such a tremendous success story for this country that the political and military leadership began to assume that they would prevail simply because of who they were. We were like the British at the turn of the 19th century. ”

We had a military and political leadership at that period which was genuinely deluded. ”

Tobey's a mellow, cool guy. He's just a good guy. I know that's not the answer you want, and I don't mean that as the political thing to say, but he's a nice guy. ”

Saddam Hussein was fascinated by ancient Babylon and Assyria. He made money available to protect and develop the great archaeological sites. The great achievements of Mesopotamian civilisation were pressed into the service of the Ba'athist regime. ”

The unforgivable political sin is vanity; the killer diet is sour grapes. ”

Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards. ”