Politburo Quotes

#1. The pinnacle of power in China is the nine-member Politburo Standing Committee, the tiny body that sets policy for the nation's 1.4 billion citizens.

Tom Clancy

#2. All through the years of the Soviet empire, its Politburo held 'elections.' Of course, calling something an election and actually having it be an election are different things.

Benazir Bhutto

#3. King Arthur and his armored goons of the Round Table functioned as the Politburo of a slave state: Camelot. Of all who have written on the Matter of Arthur, from Malory to White, only Mark Twain understood this. But Mark Twain was a great writer.

Edward Abbey

#4. I got very well acquainted with Joe Stalin, and I like old Joe! He is a decent fellow. But Joe is a prisoner of the Politburo.

Harry S. Truman

#5. I know Mischa, but you know how the politburo runs. If I say one word of this in there, I'll be out of my job the next day.' Remember, Gorbachev only became general secretary after he had kept his mouth shut under three predecessors.

Markus Wolf

#6. I was a member of the Politburo for seven years, a foreign minister.

Eduard Shevardnadze

#7. Today more people lose their seats in the Politburo in Havana than in the Congress of America, ... We need to have competitive races for the Legislature ... We have to have a clash of ideas.

John McCain

#8. minority groups too often demand equal rights they haven't earned,

Anonymous

#9. I grew up with artists.

Jason Momoa

#10. Sometimes it feels as if God set you on Earth with a bottle full of nasty-tasting pills called days and these instructions: Swallow one at a time. When entire prescription is finished, you may return home.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#11. I have to keep up appearances. I do roll with angels now.

Ashlan Thomas

#12. Leaders must live by higher standards than their followers.

John C. Maxwell

#13. I don't think fake people living in a fake house in a fake suburb are any less dismissible or believable than a fake psychic attending a fake school in a fake town. Nothing's inherently believable about any kind of fiction, because all of it's untrue.

Heidi Julavits

#14. Strive For Excellence
Perhaps the most
Important single cause of
A person's success or
Failure educationally has
To do with the question
Of what he believes about
Himself

Arthur W. Combs