Politics Quote by Theodore H. White Download Open image ““The 'smoke-filled room' as political reality is now as dead as Prohibition.”” — Theodore H. White ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dead Prohibition Political Reality Politics Prohibition Reality Dead Smoke Filled Wine
“The problems raised by alcohol and tobacco cannot, it goes without saying, be solved by prohibition. The universal and ever-present urge to self-transcendence is… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“The imagination, intoxicated by prohibitions, rises to drunken heights to destroy the world. Let it rage, let it kill.” — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
The new puritans have been highly successful. All of the preconditions for new prohibitions on alcohol and tobacco are in place. ... Indeed, the future agenda of the federal government has already been established to outlaw alcohol and tobacco in the near future. ... If current trends persist, America will be moving toward stricter prohibitions, greater restrictions, and more centralized… — Mark Thornton Copy Share
“Prohibition is to abstain from intoxicating liquor, as it makes us morbid and sometimes drunk. But we get drunk every day, nevertheless, not so… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
“AA spread like wildfire through a country desperate for hope at the end of Prohibition and in the midst of the Great Depression.” — Lance Dodes Copy Share Image
“Evidence ... proves that prohibition only drives drunkenness behind closed doors and into dark places, and it does not cure it or even diminish it.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“We are governed by what you find in the bottom of dead beer glasses that whores have dunked their cigarettes in. The place has… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Whenever you think about smoking you must see it as a lifetime’s chain of filth, disease, fear, misery and slavery.” — Allen Carr Copy Share Image
[Smoking is] a dirty habit that should be banned from America by the Government, instead of moderate alcoholic drinking. — Auguste Piccard Copy Share Image
“A genuine primary is a fight within the family of the party - and, like any family fight, is apt to be more bitter… — Theodore H. White Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the book’s greatest weakness is its romantic depiction of President Kennedy as a kind of knight in shining armor.” — Theodore H. White Copy Share Image
“In politics, the things that do not happen are frequently as significant as those that do.” — Theodore H. White Copy Share Image
“The development of an image is a mysterious thing: once a public figure has been cast in a public role, it is almost impossible… — Theodore H. White Copy Share Image
“The best politics for any president is to be a good president.” — Theodore H. White Copy Share Image
“The first and most essential quality of a presidential candidate, as Averell Harriman once pointed out, is that he should lust for the job… — Theodore H. White Copy Share Image
“In the politics of consent, no victory is ever permanent unless the victor makes it firm on a base of persuasion.” — Theodore H. White Copy Share Image
“Professionals in a campaign are servants; they can tell him only how to do something once he tells them what it is he wants… — Theodore H. White Copy Share Image
“All men who run for presidency of the United States are amateurs; there is no way of becoming a professional at it, and all… — Theodore H. White Copy Share Image
“The Americans of the age were not an irreligious people; and the fact that they were Christian was very important, for the marks of… — Theodore H. White Copy Share Image
“To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act… — Theodore H. White Copy Share Image
“Politics is a process which should slowly bring to public all the private worries and hopes of the individual.” — Theodore H. White Copy Share Image
Sentiment is the mightiest force in civilization; not sentimentality, but sentiment. Women will bring this into politics. Home, sweet home, is as powerful on… — Judith Ellen Foster 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
“Only careful political manoeuvring will be able to manage the situation.” — Davan Yahya Khalil Copy Share Image
We could form a government of national unity fighting corruption. The ordinary Afghan is sick and tired of it, because it's she or he… — Ashraf Ghani Copy Share Image
Politics is not an issue whether you like or dislike , but every citizen must involve. — Khem Veasna Copy Share Image
For the Scottish government, the practice of having meetings in different parts of the country is well established, but for the U.K. government, it… — Nicola Sturgeon Copy Share Image
“The global population of Earth are involved in the following corporate government experiments: The long term effects of - 1. Nuclear bomb fallout radiation.… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Scepticism and cynicism about politics is so great that one of the best counters to it is what you can do at a local… — Ed Miliband Copy Share Image
Right now we're concerned about budget. Right now we're concerned about the prospect of interest rate rise. We're concerned about government corruption, government handing… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
One of the worst things to come out of the Consumer Protection Board's misleading claims is the impression that government resources are to hard… — Matthew Lesko Copy Share Image
“Jim Reston: Walking through the crowds of air-kissing politicians, actors and high fliers, it was tough to tell where the politics stopped and the… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
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
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