#esma

The U.S. army confirmed that it gave a lucrative fire fighting contract in Iraq to the firm once run by the Vice President Dick Cheney without any competitive bidding. When asked if this could be conceived as Cheney's friends profiting from the war, the spokesman said 'Yes.' ↗

— Conan O'Brien

#army #asked #bidding #cheney #competitive

I am a travelling salesman. I deal in ideas. ↗

— Martin Kippenberger

#deal #i #i am #ideas #salesman

The statesman shears the sheep; the politician skins them. ↗

— Austin O'Malley

#shears #sheep #skins #statesman #them

If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#get #great #had #his #known

Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he'd be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman. ↗

— Bela Lugosi

#else #every #mad #plumber #salesman

We have a product for sale called news, and I'm a salesman. ↗

— Shepard Smith

#i #news #product #sale #salesman

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#criminal #revolutionary #statesman #successful #unsuccessful

You know, a statesman is a dead politician. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#know #politician #statesman #you

He has not yet become an elder statesman, though his foreign policy credentials are considerable, but he is certainly our ancient mariner, forever tugging at our sleeve to let him tell his tale of what really happened. ↗

— Ronald Steel

#become #certainly #considerable #credentials #elder

To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman. ↗

— George Santayana

#crime #dangerous #delight #merit #positive