Patronage System Quotes

#1. Human connection is the way things work. It's like a patronage system. You know somebody, and he knows somebody, and he knows somebody, and he knows the district governor, and it's okay.

Ian Frazier

#2. Our political system needs changing. It needs to move away from personalities and patronage to a system of party programs and consultation with the people.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

#3. You haunt me, Mina. Even before I knew you, I felt your absence.

Ava Zavora

#4. I'm pretty open book, I'm also the kind of person that will say, 'That's none of your business,' too.

Ice-T

#5. Going to pieces. To go to pieces so pointlessly and unnecessarily.

Franz Kafka

#6. Indian classical music was born when time barely existed. It developed further within the structures of royal courts and a system of patronage where the ruler or the feudal master determined all.

Tariq Ali

#7. Failure is an integral part of life and that perfection is not of this world.

Arianna Huffington

#8. Crying can bring relief, as long as you don't cry alone.

Anne Frank

#9. The kind of system Kickstarter uses has been used for hundreds of years. Unlike Medici-style patronage, where the richest people in town give large amounts of money, Kickstarter's system relies on the general public for funding projects, and rewards those backers.

Perry Chen

#10. To me, this was an oxymoron, doing a painting of a dancer. Dancers are always moving.

Jamie Wyeth

#11. Just because they really are out to get you doesn't mean you aren't paranoid.

Steven Brust