Edwin A. Locke Quotes
Multiculturalism asserts that all cultures are equal and therefore none may criticize another; intellectuals and politicians are therefore reluctant to declare the obvious superiority of Western culture to Islamic culture.
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I think the show does better with newsmakers and politicians than it does with actors.
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I am not the candidate of career politicians in Washington.
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Politicians are trying to attract people to issues.
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Politicians are, in general, receptive to those who make the most noise.
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I am cynical about politicians. My experience of politicians has been thoroughly negative. I have found that politicians are people that can not be taken at face value. There are very few politicians I have been impressed with.
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When people criticize me, instead of putting my head down, it gives me energy to do even more.
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Public service is a part of who I am, having grown up in a family of politicians.
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If you can't get rich dealing with politicians, there's something wrong with you.
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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.
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We are a Russian group and we want to change the situation in Russia. We criticize our own government and it would be strange if we did that from abroad. We don't need performances in the West to put Putin's regime under pressure. The punishments against us have shown us that we succeeded.
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I’m a Muslim, we come from a Muslim community and we are very critical of western or American foreign policy. So if I’ve got the right and if other Muslims have got the right to criticize… likewise everyone else has also got the right to criticize everything else.
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Politicians are a set of men who have interests aside from the interests of the people and who, to say the most of them, are, taken as a mass, at least one long step removed from honest men.
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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.
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When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews. You are talking anti-Semitism.
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Commend while others are criticizing, persist while others are quitting
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I criticize my own work pretty harshly.
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Every nation criticizes every other one - and they are all correct.
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The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy. The problem comes when healthy criticism is replaced with more destructive intimidation and sanctions.
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The eternal sea of politics is best left to politicians.
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I have become increasingly convinced that the past records of mutual fund managers are essentially worthless in predicting future success. The few examples of consistently superior performance occur no more frequently than can be expected by chance.
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Some of the dumbest things we do are done out of anger and bitterness when someone has wronged us.
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You can't just beat a team, you have to leave a lasting impression in their minds so they never want to see you again.
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Multiculturalism asserts that all cultures are equal and therefore none may criticize another; intellectuals and politicians are therefore reluctant to declare the obvious superiority of Western culture to Islamic culture.
