"People who seek political power are, with exceptions too rare to matter, never to be trusted; at best, such people are vain and officious busybodies. People who actually achieve political power are to be trusted even less than those who seek it without success; winning elections requires a measure of deceitfulness and Machiavellian immorality that no decent person comes close to possessing."

-- Donald J. Boudreaux

#Winning Quotes #People Quotes #Political Quotes

“People think, 'Wow, you're an actress, so people must be really nice to you and kiss your ass.' NOBODY kisses my ass.”
“The world has become so complex that the idea of a power in which everything comes together and can be controlled in a centralized way is now erroneous.”
“John and I would go and have a couple of quiet beers, just to sit down and chew the fat. And he'd talk about Cynthia and how much he missed her”
“Me and a friend literally had the idea for Wedding Crashers and pitched it, and it was already a script. They go, "That's funny! You should call it The Wedding Crashers." It was almost exactly like that .”
“I toyed with making portraits based on people's discarded shopping lists found on the street, or old diaries bought on eBay, or other forms of borrowed stories. When I stumbled across the Missed Connections listings, I knew immediately I'd found it.”
“A new leadership. A choice. A chance. Don't cry about what you don't have. Use what you got.”
“Great crimes come never singly; they are linked To sins that went before.”
“I have always said that archival images are images without imagination. They petrify thought and kill any power of evocation.”

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