Political Quote by David Steel Download Open image “All politicians have vanity. Some wear it more gently than others.” — David Steel ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Political Politician Politics Vanity
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I have so much respect for policy makers and diplomats, but I could never be a politician because of the way they dress! — Azita Ghanizada Copy Share Image
I understand that show business people can wear the public a bit thin when it comes to politics. I know they wear me thin. — Clint Howard Copy Share Image
Guard against that vanity which courts a compliment, or is fed by it. — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
In countries where all the crooked politicians wear pin-striped suits, the best people are bare-assed. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Daily and hourly, the politician inwardly has to overcome a quite trivial and all-too-human enemy: a quite vulgar vanity. — Max Weber Copy Share Image
There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous. To be convinced of this we need only represent, on the one hand,the… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Politicians are like the bones of a horse's foreshoulder-not a straight one in it. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
I foresee a Liberal vote so massive and the number of Liberal MPs so great that we shall hold the initiative in the new… — David Steel Copy Share Image
I like good food and decent wine as much as Roy Jenkins does, but I keep quiet about it. — David Steel Copy Share Image
I am against any pact with the Nationalists because I am against pacts in principle. — David Steel Copy Share Image
Liberals have always opposed the concept of an independent nuclear deterrent. — David Steel Copy Share Image
To listen to some people in Politics, you'd think-nice-was a four-letter word. — David Steel Copy Share Image
Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Only careful political manoeuvring will be able to manage the situation.” — Davan Yahya Khalil Copy Share Image
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We have to build our own power. We have to win every single political office we can, where we have a majority of black… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not at the same time… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
I'm not going to be part of looking at information only partially. I'm not going to be part of just coming to quick conclusions.… — Max Cleland Copy Share Image
Freedom in every sense but primarily political sense, a rise in repression that stems from a repression of sexuality. It's AIDS, it's herpes, it's… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
In the current climate, things that are true, brave human stories become political. — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
People will pay a price for putting political obstruction over progress in a time that is so critical and urgent. — Tim Kaine Copy Share Image
I do conscientiously and sincerely believe that the Order of Freemasonry, if not the greatest, is one of the greatest moral and political evils… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
