"Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good."

-- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

#Political Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Mistrust Quotes

“National security advisors, like White House Chiefs of Staff, their job generally if they`re - if they`re competent and qualified and effective is to be honest brokers in the White House.”
“Typically, when you're with your friends, premises are coming up left and right. But when you're on stage, you must create the premise. So you have to create the premise, paint the picture and then deliver the punch line.”
“The liberal uses the radical's language to achieve the conservative's aim: the preservation of the capitalist system, and the traditional ethnic/racial hierarchy within society.”

Source : Manning Marable (1980). “From the grassroots: essays toward Afro-American liberation”
“To write an album takes so much focus and selfish time, to just write and think about your life. For me. Maybe not for other people.”
“It did not seem to me that prejudice, poverty, discrimination, repression and racism were confined to the North of Ireland. I could see them everywhere I spoke and still cannot comprehend the mentality that argues that I should have pretended not to see them, because it wasn't my business.”
“Maybe Iâ€™ll come back as somebody else. Iâ€™ll be the wild-haired girl Adam meets in his first week at university. â€˜Hi, are you on the horticultural course as well?”
“This fellow Charles Lindbergh will never make it. He's doomed.”
“The public can tolerate a Nazi America.”

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