Mackenzie King Quotes

Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.

Mackenzie King

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If you're playing in a room that holds 15,000 people, it's just a question of how bad the room acoustics are and in what way they're bad.

Walter Becker Steely Dan
- People
- Bad
- Question
It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others.

Nathalie Sarraute
- Good
- Mind
- Bad
Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.

Zbigniew Brzezinski
- War
- Government
- Conflict
The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle High, I tried to live up to it.

Frances Farmer
- People
- Up
- Live
Efficiency in government is a more elusive concept than efficiency in the private economy, which may be measured relatively easily as output per units of input. What is the government's 'output?'

Nathan Myhrvold
Sure, just like there are bad lawyers, bad doctors and bad politicians, there are people who aren't cut out to be teachers. But by and large, the people who are called to be teachers are passionate about the profession.

Randi Weingarten
- People
- Bad
- Lawyers