Patronage Politics Quotes

#1. The Philippines, it has a politics of patronage. Family and favors, in addition to the old cliche of guns, goons and gold, really do still hold a lot of sway.

Miguel Syjuco

#2. I did everything I could except win. I feel fine. I just played bad at a big time.

Lindsay Davenport

#3. If there are no permanent standards, there is no criticism possible.

John Dos Passos

#4. Disabilities are not inspiration, they are messages that need to be addressed.

Marc David O'Brien

#5. I've been blessed to be one of those guys who's looked at as a fashion-forward type of guy.

Dwyane Wade

#6. There are some Republicans who say that any time you raise new revenue, you have to have a tax cut to match it. I am not one of those Republicans.

Jeff Flake

#7. Every fairytale has a villain. All high quality happy endings involve a black-hearted monster. I just didn't want you to be mine.

Coco J. Ginger

#8. There is almost no country in Africa where it is not essential to know to which tribe, or which subgroup of which tribe, the president belongs. From this single piece of information you can trace the lines of patronage and allegiance that define the state.

Christopher Hitchens

#9. It does not often happen that the interference of friends will persuade a young man of independent fortune to think no more of a girl.

Jane Austen

#10. I don't have to save them all, just a few, or one, and then that one has to go out and save another one until this half-dead world begins to climb out of the grave it's standing in waiting for someone to throw dirt on it.

Dan Groat

#11. I would bow slightly with my hands in my pockets, toward the birds and the evidence of life in their nests
because of their fecundity, unexpected in this remote region, and because the serene arctic light that came down over the land like breath, like breathing.

Barry Lopez

#12. I like to think I don't make music for ignorant people.

Tinie Tempah