Heather Brooke Quotes
Politicians often claim secrecy is necessary for good governance or national security.
Heather Brooke
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Politicians are, in general, receptive to those who make the most noise.
Dan Pink
Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State.
Cardinal Richelieu
Public service is a part of who I am, having grown up in a family of politicians.
Harold Ford, Jr.
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
If you can't get rich dealing with politicians, there's something wrong with you.
Donald Trump
We know that the wages of secrecy are corruption. We know that in secrecy, error undetected will flourish and subvert.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
It is much more convenient not to be a public company. As a private company you don't have to give information to the public. Secrecy is an important factor of success in the commodity business.
Marc Rich
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
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
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
Keep your misfortunes to yourself.
William Hazlitt
A woman only obliges a man to secrecy, that she may have the pleasure of telling herself.
William Congreve
