#cian

I've always seen my campaigns against corruption as political work of a purer form than what opposition leaders usually do. All they do is hold roundtables and release political statements, which is all well and good. But there are concrete things that need to get done in order to achieve the basic goal of every opposition politician. ↗

— Alexei Navalny

#against #always #basic #campaigns #concrete

The function of the politician, therefore, is one of continuous watchfulness and activity, and he must have intimate knowledge of details if he would work out grand results. ↗

— John George Nicolay

#continuous #details #function #grand #intimate

The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#asked #because #loss #make #mark

I am dying with the help of too many physicians. ↗

— Alexander the Great

#dying #help #i #i am #many

Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are. ↗

— Peggy Noonan

#fall #help #just #love #politicians

We're all players and musicians and we sure all get along good. We just clicked right off the bat. We started playing and then we almost immediately started recording. ↗

— Krist Novoselic

#along #bat #clicked #get #good

I have always been far more interested in sound than technique, and how sounds work together, how they can be layered. I think electronic music, in its infancy anyway, allowed us to create music in a way that hadn't really been possible before. It created a new kind of musician. ↗

— Gary Numan

#always #anyway #been #before #create

NASA is an engine of innovation and inspiration as well as the world's premier space exploration agency, and we are well served by politicians working to keep it that way, instead of turning it into a mere jobs program, or worse, cutting its budget. ↗

— Bill Nye

#budget #cutting #engine #exploration #innovation

Apparently Arnold was inspired by President Bush, who proved you can be a successful politician in this country even if English is your second language. ↗

— Conan O'Brien

#arnold #bush #country #english #even

Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that. ↗

— Ed O'Brien

#aspire #bowie #like #musician #painter