Imelda Marcos Quotes

When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.

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• Politics is the art of the next best.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Art
  • Best
  • Politics

• Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Politics
  • Agreement
  • Pulpit

• If it wasn't for what goes on in the world of politics, we wouldn't really have much of a show.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • World
  • Politics
  • Show

• I went to a Steiner School, which is very small and nurturing and creative, so I felt like I was in an environment where I could mature. There was less of the clique-y stuff, which can really make high school a living hell for a lot of people, going on, so I was very similar then to who I am now. I'm still a dork.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • School
  • Small
  • Environment

• 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.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Business
  • Politics
  • Now

• Anglo-Saxon kings often used to favour their sister's son to their own - for at least you could guarantee there was your own blood in your sister's son!

  

  Kate Williams
  • Son
  • Sister
  • Kings

• I am a worrier. I worry about the state of our country, of the world, of our species. Every day seems to deliver a new nail to hammer into our collective coffin.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • World
  • Country
  • Species

• Catalan politics emancipated from the Spanish politics on September 27, 2015. Since then, we've acted with a sovereign mentality, political sovereignty.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Political
  • Politics
  • Spanish

• I'm not sophisticated when it comes to politics, when it comes to journalism.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Politics
  • Journalism

• One of the things that's really, really present in 'Between the World and Me' is, I am in some ways outside of the African-American tradition.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • World
  • American
  • Tradition

• I'm a novelist, a critic, an essayist - I tend to see politics as a subset of cultures rather than the other way around. It's a human enterprise, a tool or a technology revealing our collective inner self.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Technology
  • Politics
  • Self

• If someone put a camera in my face now, when I am in student mode, I would get embarrassed, but when I am modelling, I play characters.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Play
  • Face
  • Characters

• I am very amazed by the runners out there because I like jog to the garbage can outside sometimes, and I get tired.

  

  Kacy Catanzaro
  • Tired
  • Amazed
  • Runners

• I am a news presenter, a news broadcaster, an anchorman, a managing editor - not a commentator or analyst.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • News
  • Editor
  • Broadcaster

• I am a Yankees fan. I should say - have been to more Yankees games than Mets games.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Games
  • Fan
  • Yankees

• Everybody knows what I represent. My message is that Israel wants peace, and I am going to do everything possible to find ways to get this peace, this objective of all our people. All of us want peace. The differences are about the conditions of this peace.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • People
  • Peace
  • Israel

• You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Good
  • Know
  • Politics

• In general in New York, we all eat like kings. Insane quality, mind-blowing variety, at all price ranges.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Mind
  • Quality
  • New York

• Unity in faith is theocracy; unity in politics is fascism.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Faith
  • Politics
  • Unity

• The failures of the past must not be an excuse for the inaction of the present and the future.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Excuse
  • Failures
  • Inaction

• I can see, for just a moment, his beating heart in his ribcage, and then that, too, withers and dies, the useless, blackened lump tapping against his ribs before plopping out of his body.

  

  Beth Revis
  • Dies
  • Ribs
  • Beating Heart

• What you hear about the band is always going to be more disturbing than any particular song.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Song
  • You
  • Band

• When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Politics
  • Kings
  • Holding