Harry S Truman Quotes
The difficulty with businessmen entering politics, after they've had a successful business career, is that they want to start at the top.
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I want the kind of career where I can move back and forth.
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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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Where issues used to be, say, parochial or local in Ireland or England and so forth, all politics is global now because all business is global.
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I'm not sophisticated when it comes to politics, when it comes to journalism.
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There have been periods of my career that I haven't worked for a really long time, like seven or eight months.
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In Paris, I met a young American person who immediately became the primary inspiration which awakened my vision and the leading influence that had directed my forces. Throughout my career as an artist, I refer to this person by the word 'Woman.'
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The biggest accomplishment, in racial terms, for Barack Obama was being elected. He had to overcome his blackness to be elected. He climbed the Mt. Everest of American politics, becoming an historic first.
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Unity in faith is theocracy; unity in politics is fascism.
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Anyone graduating from medical school in 1966 had first to fulfill military service before launching a career. Fiercely opposed to the Vietnam War, I sought to avoid it through an assignment to the Public Health Service.
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Politics is - once in a while - a forum for serious debate about political philosophy.
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I've been very blessed in my personal life and in my career and I have never been ungrateful for what I have.
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To me, politics is an extension of what I do in medicine.
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I have no child to inherit my properties. You, the people, are my only family, and to make you happy is the reason I do politics.
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As Assistant Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, a constant concern for me is having our veterans dragged into partisan politics.
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One thing I've had to realize in my career is that I can't do it all. Sometimes we put a lot of pressure on ourselves to make sure we're writing the next hit. There are other people out there, and that's what they do every day, and they have strengths that I don't have.
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For a person who promised hope and civility in politics, Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiveness in blaming Mr. Bush.
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Early on in my career I had a lot of bad press about my temperament, but I was only a young lad then.
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Any time anyone says anything nice about me, whether it's Lady Gaga or your neighbor, it's a nice feeling, I'm very grateful for it. It's very helpful for your career. Every time someone says something complimentary it introduces you to their audience. It gives you credibility.
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I really hope acting is going to be my career to the end, but you don't know anything, really, do you?
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Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.
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A startup for entrepreneurs is like a baby, and I have five babies so far - experienced father.
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Books can capture injustices in a way that stays with you and makes you want to do something about them. That's why they are so powerful.
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It's just so frustrating when you're in a supporting role because you only get to express a part of yourself.
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The difficulty with businessmen entering politics, after they've had a successful business career, is that they want to start at the top.
