Quotes about "Politics & Government"

Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them. ”

Before the Civil War, the Negro was certainly as efficient a workman as the raw immigrant from Ireland or Germany. But, whereas the Irishmen found economic opportunity wide and daily growing wider, the Negro found public opinion determined to 'keep him in his place.' ”

In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln. ”

The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it. ”

Let the punishments of criminals be useful. A hanged man is good for nothing; a man condemned to public works still serves the country, and is a living lesson. ”

The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work. ”

A mother-in-law is better than a single and childless political persona, though. ”

The unjustified swelling of the budgetary deficit and the accumulation of public debts are just as destructive as adventurous stock-jobbing. ”

The United States and Russian security services regularly exchange information. ”

The Russian people have unilaterally made their choice in direction of democracy in the early '90s. They will not be led astray. Nobody should be having any doubts. ”