"Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy, but good administration can never save bad policy."

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Source : "Speeches of Adlai Stevenson" by Adlai Ewing Stevenson, (p. 36), 1952.

Adlai Stevenson I

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“Who lives as a citizen, may write as a philosopher - but write as a philosopher, it is to teach materialism!”
“Those women who had gone out with Germans were grabbed and treated very badly, often shaved totally bald so that everyone could see who they were. Some were taken prisoners. There had been so much suffering during the war because of the betrayal of those collaborators, so many killed and hurt because of what they had done to families, that the mood for revenge against the traitors was very high. It was not right, but it was understandable.”
“Everyone has their own approach to how they work.”
“Human history is in truth nothing but the history of the slow, uncertain, and surprising fulfillment of the Promise.”

Source : Gustavo Gutiérrez (1988). “A theology of liberation: history, politics, and salvation”
“I had a naïve idea that if I could tell the story, people would be outraged and do something about conditions in the jails.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I think I want to stick to jewelry. Perfumes are for the bigger media stars, and I think that works well for them. I don't think you have to be a big star to have a jewelry line; if something's pretty, I think people will want to buy it.”
“I'm very harsh on real estate agents. I'm not sure why. Maybe it's because of how the call every small house 'charming' and every run-down house a 'great fixer-upper'. Just once, I'd like them to show me a house and declare, 'This one's a piece of crap'.”
“For years I lived rather medicated and muted - I did not possess language to describe my vague feelings of unhappiness, to politicize it, to attempt to transcend it.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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