16 quotes found
“Part of courage is simple consistency.”
“Candor is a compliment it implies equality. It's how true friends talk.”
“Candor is a compliment it implies equality. It's how true friends talk. ”
“Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.”
“You don't have to be old in America to say of a world you lived in: That world is gone.”
“Word of the day- kakistocracy. From the Greek meaning government by the worst persons, least qualified or most unprincipled.”
“We must try again to be alive to what the people of our country really long for in our national life: forgiveness and grace, maturity and wisdom....Our political leaders will know our priorities on...”
“What we need most right now, at this moment, is a kind of patriotic grace - a grace that takes the long view, apprehends the moment we're in, comes up with ways of dealing with it, and eschews the ...”
“But one immediate thing can be done right now, and that is: lower the temperature. Any way you can, and everybody. Just lower it.”
“Prayer is the hardest thing. And no one congratulates you for doing it because no one knows you're doing it, and if things turn out well they likely won't thank God in any case. But I have a feelin...”
“Everyone over 50 in America feels like a refugee. In the Old America there were a lot of bad parents. There always are, because parenting is hard. Inadequate parents could say, 'Go outside and play...”
“Most people aren't appreciated enough, and the bravest things we do in our lives are usually known only to ourselves. No one throws ticker tape on the man who chose to be faithful to his wife, on t...”
“Do not be afriad! I can see that Americans are not afraid. They are not afraid of the sun, they are not afraid of the wind, they are not afraid of 'today'. They are, generally speaking, brave, good...”
“Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It le...”
“If you join government, calmly make your contribution and move on. Don't go along to get along; do your best and when you have to - and you will - leave, and be something else.”
“Here is an old tradition badly in need of return: You have to earn your way into politics. You should go have a life, build a string of accomplishments, then enter public service....”
