Quotes about "Politics & Government"

Staying in luxury hotels still gives me a kick, especially Oulton Hall in Yorkshire. I'd stay in a hotel for the breakfast and room service. ”

Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage. ”

Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me. ”

If a man, for private profit, tears at the public news, does so with the impatience of one who thinks he actually owns the news you get, it is against the national interest. ”

I learned that the public and the press don't need to know everything about you, or they might turn on you. ”

Basketball is great and so much fun, and it has taken me to so many places. I've been in the public eye a lot, and it has given me so many great experiences but hasn't changed the person I am. ”

One of the most important things about leadership is that you have to have the kind of humility that will allow you to be coached. ”

I learned long ago on the battlefields of Vietnam that in a crisis, there is no substitute for clear-eyed leadership. ”

I fought as an infantry Marine on one of the Vietnam War's harshest battlefields. After leaving the Marine Corps, I studied law and found a fulfilling career as an author and journalist. But again and again, I came back to the personal fulfillment that can only come from public service. ”

The function of combat is not merely to perpetrate violence, but to perpetrate violence on command, instantaneously and reflexively. The function of the service academies is to prepare men for leadership positions where they may someday exercise that command. ”