Political Advancement Quotes

Politics are now nothing more than the means of rising in the world.

New Republican Presidential candidate Jon Huntsman is fluent in Chinese. In a short period of time the Republicans have come quite a long way. The last Republican president wasn't even fluent in English.

The People’s Army is not merely an organ for fighting; it is also an organ for the political advancement of the [Chinese Communist] party.

DEGRADATION, n. One of the stages of moral and social progress from private station to political preferment.

That wall, embodied in the First Amendment, is perhaps America's most important contribution to political progress on this planet.

We are supposed to believe that every dollar given to a Clinton is a dollar that improves the world. But is it? Clintonworld is a galaxy where personal enrichment and political advancement blend seamlessly, and where a cast of jarringly familiar characters pad their pockets every which way to Sunday.

Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.

Successful societies-those which progress economically and politically and can control the terms on which they deal with the outside world-succeed because they have found ways to match individual self-interest to the collective good.

Transport is not a ministry the ambitious should accept: no transport minister has gone on to be prime minister.

In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.

Richard Nixon is very much a self-made man in the six years prior to his emergence as a national figure. Between the moment he's elected to Congress in 1946 and the moment he's inaugurated as Vice President in 1953, he conducts nothing less than a kind of prodigy of American political self-advancement.

Remember that a civilized nation cannot just have one party; if there were only one party, this would merely be a dictatorship. Politics could not advance.

When a guy gets elected to the Senate or the governor's mansion, he wakes up the next morning and says to himself, 'You're presidential material,'

The people's army is not merely an organ for fighting; it is also an organ for the political advancement of the party

The economic prerequisites for the socialist revolution are fully matured in the US. The political premises are likewise far more advanced than might appear on the surface.

The change of the binominal system is without a doubt, a great advancement, it will allow us to be better represented and have better ideas.

I have spent myself on all kinds of things ... I have advanced much politically but I have written little and moreover have written it badly.

... the most remarkable of all the inventions of modern politics.

I realize that some folks might not believe me in this - I didn't run for Congress on the hopes that one day you're going to run for something else.

The quickest way to get to the top in society probably is to be a Blair Babe now. And then all of a sudden you find you're invited to parties. I don't want to be cynical, because I'm not. But I've seen it happen to so many people who move from the left to the right so damn quickly.