Political Patronage Quotes

#1. Congress-these, for the most part, illiterate hacks whose fancy vests are spotted with gravy, and whose speeches, hypocritical, unctuous, and slovenly, are spotted also with the gravy of political patronage.

Mary McCarthy

#2. The stimulus was a case of political patronage, corporate welfare, and cronyism at their worst.

Paul Ryan

#3. Aamah would sometimes remind them that the story of an old disputte should be retold only when no aftertaste of bitterness remains upon the tongue.

Catherine M. Wilson

#4. 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

#5. It may be useful to remember that a peacetime political machine is built essentially on patronage.

David Galula

#6. nepotism, patronage, political corruption, and ethnic divisions.

Wayne Worcester

#7. Isn't it fascinating to think that probably the only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping off and showing his shortcomings?

David Niven

#8. But the idea that God might want to change his mind is an example of the fallacy, pointed out by St. Augustine, of imagining God as a being existing in time: time is a property only of the universe that God created.

Stephen Hawking

#9. It did not come naturally; in fact, it would be difficult to conceive of any more dogmatic and less tolerant people than the first settlers on New England shores.

Paul Harris

#10. Happiness is a choice ... you cannot choose what happens, but you can choose your reaction to it and be Happy.-RVM

R.v.m.

#11. The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience.

Lech Walesa

#12. The Communist Manifesto was correct but we see the privileges of the capitalist bourgeoisie yielding to democratic organizations. In my judgment success lies in a steady [peaceful] advance [rather] than in a catastrophic crash.

Eduard Bernstein

#13. If only our great thinkers could learn to talk, and our great talkers could learn to think.

Ashleigh Brilliant