Politics Quote by Jane Mayer

“If he would only burst his self-imposed shackles, get out of himself, break away from the narrow bounds of his sickly, limited thought, he…

— Orison Swett Marden

“He had no need to push the everyday world away from him. He just stepped out of it whenever he wished.”

— Abraham Pais

“He forced us to watch the happenings in the world far from what seemed like our own. Educating us on the beasts that walk…

— Ker Dukey

“Things were not as they seemed. The known world was shifting, reforming. Everything he’d taken as a given, a fact, as real and unquestioned,…

— Louise Penny

“What he had was a sense that few things mattered much. That few people are to be feared. And so he now faced all…

— Dave Eggers

“...Goddamn himself for letting his independence slip away from him. He didn't even know how it had happened, how he had lost the ability…

— Kimberly Gardner

“There is power in his touch, power in the slightest look. He is a hard man who commands a billion-dollar enterprise, and right now…

— J. Kenner

“...while the others--those who wanted him to stay, to hold the line, to become the brink, but no farther--felt viable now with disgust for…

— Colum McCann

“It showed him how people continued to endure, even in the hardest circumstances imaginable, when everything else had been taken away. The world either…

— Bella Forrest

“A great many people, he had noticed, spent large parts of their time worrying about things they were powerless to alter. Had they concentrated…

— Setterfield Diane

“It was part of what had made him so good at manipulating people - he could present them with what they wanted to see.…

— Cate Tiernan

“in return for full bellies and entertainment, his people had given up their political responsibilities and therefore their power.”

— Suzanne Collins