"What people fail to appreciate is that the currency of corruption in elective office is, not money, but votes."

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Source : James L. Buckley (2010). “Freedom at Risk: Reflections on Politics, Liberty, and the State”, p.244, ReadHowYouWant.com

James L. Buckley

#People Quotes #Appreciate Quotes #Office Quotes

“I was looking through a newspaper and it was an audition for 'Kids Say the Darndest Things,' so I tried out. One thing led to another and I appeared on 'The Rosie O'Donnell Show' and 'Oprah.”
“I've never been a hands-on dad. I'm not ashamed to admit it, but you can't run a restaurant and be home for tea at 4:30 and bath and change nappies.”
“You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too.”
“If you don't have trust inside your company, then you can't transfer it to your customers.”
“We have to cease the migration of Arab potential to the west; they should be respected in their own countries.”
“Man cannot survive except through his mind. He comes on earth unarmed. His brain is his only weapon. Animals obtain food by force. man had no claws, no fangs, no horns, no great strength of muscle. He must plant his food or hunt it. To plant, he needs a process of thought. To hunt, he needs weapons,and to make weapons - a process of thought. From this simplest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and we have comes from a single attribute of man -the function of his reasoning mind.”
“What is the politically correct term for 'retarded'?""I think the words you're fishing for are 'mentally disabled.' And no. I'm not mentally disabled.”

Source : Rachel Gibson (2010). “Nothing But Trouble”, p.13, Harper Collins
“Literary friendship is a sympathy not of manners, but of feelings.”

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