Bears Quote by Tom Coburn Download Open image “The longer a politician bears power, the more he is controlled by that power.” — Tom Coburn ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bears Controlled Political Politician Politics Power Term Term limits
A politician before he can become a statesman has to remain in office long enough. — Manmohan Singh Copy Share Image
People think of politicians having true power, but that's less and less true. After all, they are often constrained or being edged into a… — Bernard Arnault Copy Share Image
A politician normally prospers under democracy in proportion ... as he excels in the invention of imaginary perils and imaginary defenses against them. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
You know, larger-than-life politicians have larger-than-life strengths and larger-than-life weaknesses. — Joe Klein Copy Share Image
If the benevolent ruler stays in power long enough, he eventually concludes that power and wisdom are the same thing. And as he possesses… — Ben Moreell Copy Share Image
In the age of term limits, unfortunately, you see power not in the people who are elected by the people, but instead more in… — Sara Gideon Copy Share Image
Now all politicians assume a necessity of control, the more efficient the control the better. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
The politician is an acrobat. He keeps his balance by saying the opposite of what he does. — Maurice Barres Copy Share Image
Great power often corrupts virtue; it invariably renders vice more malignant. . . . In proportion as the powers of government increase, both its… — John Taylor of Caroline Copy Share Image
The politician is the creature of the public sentiment -- never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . . . — Lucy Stone Copy Share Image
I believe keeping our promises should be our highest priority and that means saving Social Security and Medicare while preserving the American dream for… — Tom Coburn Copy Share Image
The founding fathers never once rationalized getting in power and having control so they could stay in power. — Tom Coburn Copy Share Image
The real debate is we've had an activist court, and the American people don't want an activist court. And the real fear from those who might oppose Samuel Alito is that he'll bring the court back within a realm where the American people might want us to be with a Supreme Court; one that interprets the law, equal justice under… — Tom Coburn Copy Share
It is inexcusable for the White House and Congress to not even make the effort to find at least some offsets to this new… — Tom Coburn Copy Share Image
I firmly believe that the court should take another direction on many of these moral issues that face us. — Tom Coburn Copy Share Image
The voting records of virtually every member of Congress reveal that the oath of office is more a ceremonial gesture than a sacred commitment. — Tom Coburn Copy Share Image
When we have heartbeat and brain waves, we refuse to accept it as the presence of life - this lack of logic of which… — Tom Coburn Copy Share Image
I would like to believe I would not have behaved differently had I not made a term limits pledge, but my own frailties and… — Tom Coburn Copy Share Image
Welfare reform happened with reconciliation; half the Democrats voted for it. The Bush tax cuts happened with reconciliation; twelve Democratic Senators voted for it.… — Tom Coburn Copy Share Image
Careerism: the self-centered philosophy of governing to win the next election above all else. — Tom Coburn Copy Share Image
The question that arises as we use all these adjectives and adverbs to describe our physicians as we approach a Supreme Court nominee is… — Tom Coburn Copy Share Image
For not only every democracy, but certainly every republic, bears within itself the seeds of its own destruction. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
She'd read once that if you ran into a bear in the woods you should avoid eye contact and you shouldn't run away, but… — Anne Ursu Copy Share Image
In the movie, the stars above the ship bear no correspondence to any constellations in a real sky. Worse yet, while the heroine bobs...… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Television series are like the stock market. There's room for bears and bulls but no room for pigs. — Bob Newhart Copy Share Image
The Germans are the most philosophic people in the world, and the greatest smokers: now I trace their philosophy to their smoking. Smoking has… — George Henry Borrow Copy Share Image
...Gratitude transforms the torment of memory of good things now gone into silent joy. One bears what was lovely in the past not as… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
You've had a whole lot of experience, but everything is also radically new at each moment, and you have to bring a kind of… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
The rationale which accompanies that imposition of male authority euphemistically referred to as 'the battle of the sexes' bears a certain resemblance to the… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
Pay no heed to the passing religious vogue. Go back to the grass roots. Open your hearts and search the Scriptures. Bear your cross,… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
I want you to take a red-hot bath as hot as you can bear it, and just relax your nerves. You can read in… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
He sank into the rocking chair, the same one in which Rebecca had sat during the early days of the house to give embroidery lessons, and in which Amaranta had played Chinese checkers with Colonel Gerineldo Marquez, and in which Amarana Ursula had sewn the tiny clothing for the child, and in that flash of lucidity he became aware that… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share
Some things in this world just ain't meant to be, not in the times we want 'em to, and the heart has to hold… — James McBride Copy Share Image
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