Heather Brooke Quotes
Politicians often claim secrecy is necessary for good governance or national security.
Heather Brooke
Quotes to Explore
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Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State.
Cardinal Richelieu
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Public service is a part of who I am, having grown up in a family of politicians.
Harold Ford, Jr.
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Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone.
Maya Angelou
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If you can't get rich dealing with politicians, there's something wrong with you.
Donald Trump
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We know that the wages of secrecy are corruption. We know that in secrecy, error undetected will flourish and subvert.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
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There is no reason to believe that bureaucrats and politicians, no matter how well meaning, are better at solving problems than the people on the spot, who have the strongest incentive to get the solution right.
Elinor Ostrom
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Politicians generally form alliances and not friendships. Individuals and institutions achieve their ends through continual barter. But deals are not bonds. Indeed, intense emotional involvement with anything - with issues, ideology, a woman, even a family - can be a handicap, not only consuming valuable time, but more importantly, reducing flexibility and the capacity for detached calculation needed to take maximum advantage of continually changing circumstances.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
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The Presidency, even to the most experienced politicians, is no bed of roses; and [Zachary] Taylor like others, found thorns within it. No human being can fill that station and escape censure.
Abraham Lincoln
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Keep your misfortunes to yourself.
William Hazlitt
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And I think musicians can better run this state than politicians. And, hell, beauticians can better run the state than politicians.
Kinky Friedman
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A lot of politicians say they want to get people out to vote; sometimes you can't totally believe they really want that.
Tom Golisano
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Iraq both poses a continuing threat to the national security of the United States and international peace and security in the Persian Gulf region and remains in material and unacceptable breach of its international obligations by, among other things, continuing to possess and develop a significant chemical and biological weapons capability, actively seeking a nuclear weapons capability, and supporting and harboring terrorist organizations.
Hillary Clinton
