Changing Loyalties Quotes

On most significant issues and public debates, politicians have some friends, allies and supporters with whom they wish they had never been involved. These are the friends who do the work of your enemies. As you evolve your positions, many of your friends and enemies change places.

At Rome I love Tibur; then, like a weathercock, at Tibur Rome.

That's politics. Your friend one day is your enemy the next and vice versa.

Inconstancy no sin will prove If we consider that we love But the same beauty in another face, Like the same body in another place.

Pompey bade Sylla recollect that more worshipped the rising than the setting sun.

In politics, there are no permanent enemies or friends.

These people that started here, they support the government now against those rebels. Why talking about what happened at the very beginning is completely different from what is happening now - it's not the same. There's very high dynamic, things are changing on daily basis. It's a completely different image. Those people who wanted revolution, they are cooperating with us.

I don't go looking for phantom statements from people I support. I don't imagine phantom statements because I support them. If they do things that I don't like or don't agree with, my support can go. I mean, my support's not wedded to anybody at all times ever, depending.

In my father's time - he was in college during many transitions in the late 1930s - they had great institutional loyalties... to his college, eventually the navy, the Democratic Party and certain ideals of our country. Those are the things that became broken with my generation.

FICKLENESS, n. The iterated satiety of an enterprising affection.

If it's easy to be friendly she will be. If the wind blows the other way her friendship will be gone. And I'm thinking the wind is blowing the other way. She has found some other way to be an important person in her own right by hating others.