Politics Quote by Philip Kerr

“I am unacquainted with a more deplorable spectacle than that of a people unable either to defend or to maintain its independence.”

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“I looked down at the city. Its extravagance felt wasteful, like gushing oil or some other precious thing Bennie was hoarding for himself, using…

— Jennifer Egan

“You are like a city on the hill; you can't be hidden out of sight in any way! Beautify your environment and your influence…

— Israelmore Ayivor

“But it was a rich, picture-perfect, it-can't-happen-here kind of suburb where people had gone, not to deal with life's problems, but to avoid them.”

— Richard Peck

“never liked the atmosphere of Washington. I early saw that it was impossible to build up a race of which the leaders were spending…

— Booker T. Washington

“Pictures and words don't hurt anyone, except for those who are afraid of history.”

— Katherine Govier

“I hate to admit it, but governmental deviousness is usually better explained by incompetence, vanity, and the need to protect one's job at all…

— Jasper Fforde

“A person was like a city. You couldn't let a few less desirable parts put you off the whole. There may be bits you…

— Matt Haig

“America was staggeringly unobservant even twelve years into the Dark Age of Terrorism. If you see something, say something was a hell of a…

— Stephen King

“There’s something about New York City that gives you permission to just be. There’s no need for pretense, no need for masks. You can…

— Jessica Verdi

“There is a class of tourists who never seem to see the things they're visiting, I thought. They prefer to look at directions to…

— Stephen Clarke

“my career in public life, I have had the rare privilege of being a participant in many of the defining moments of our country’s…

— Pranab Mukherjee