"A statesman is a successful politician who is dead."

-- Thomas Reed

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“The tragedy of all political action is that some problems have no solution; none of the alternatives are intellectually consistent or morally uncompromising; and whatever decision is taken will harm somebody.”

Source : James Joll (1960). “Intellectuals in politics: three biographical essays”
“The U.S. along with China, Japan, South Korea and Russia has an important role to play in containing North Korea's nuclear ambitions and exerting all the influence we can possibly exert.”
“That sinuous southern life, that oblique and slow and complicated old beauty, that warm thick air and blood warm sea, that place of mists and languor and fragrant richness...”

Source : Anne Rivers Siddons (1993). “Colony”, G K Hall & Company
“Poverty is not only about income poverty, it is about the deprivation of economic and social rights, insecurity, discrimination, exclusion and powerlessness. That is why human rights must not be ignored but given even greater prominence in times of economic crisis.”
“A good creative-writing teacher can save a good writer a lot of time.”
“Fear attracts the darkness. When you have no fear, the darkness fears YOU.”
“If you don't concentrate on counting the money, people soon realize that money is not the focus of your consciousness, so they give you everything other than money: kudos, acclaim, praise, etc., etc. And sooner or later you'll be in trouble.”
“I want to make music that I know that ten years from now, you can put it on and say "This is a great record".”

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