#lit

I would argue that one of the issues which the public should be much more emphatic about with all politicians... is patronage, appointing people to high positions because they supported your campaign or helped you raise money. ↗

— John Hickenlooper

#appointing #argue #because #campaign #emphatic

In the restaurant business, you never want to have enemies, whereas it seems that many politicians judge their success by how high their enemies are and whether they can show that they can hold their ground and give a punch for every punch they take. ↗

— John Hickenlooper

#every #give #ground #high #hold

Today we're dealing with metropolitan Shanghai, metropolitan New Delhi or Paris. If we're competing at that level, our diversity, that richness of people coming from so many different backgrounds, is one of our greatest advantages. ↗

— John Hickenlooper

#backgrounds #coming #competing #dealing #delhi

Of everyone else who was running, and there were some very talented people, none of them had anywhere near the experience I had in hiring people, holding them accountable, creating systems for accountability. ↗

— John Hickenlooper

#accountable #anywhere #creating #else #everyone

I think it's just a lack of ability, we're incapable of writing hits. ↗

— Kenny Hickey

#hits #i #i think #incapable #just

As long as one person lives in darkness then it seems to be a responsibility to tell other people. ↗

— Bill Hicks

#lives #long #other #people #person

Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of kings - stories that taught us of the danger of hubris and the primacy of humility. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#centuries #danger #deaths #drama #expanding

Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other's, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#each #fallibility #frailty #humanity #instinctively

The necessary transformation of which I speak and of which my presidency will be a part is built on turning creative possibilities into live realities for all our people. ↗

— Michael D. Higgins

#creative #i #into #live #necessary

Politics isn't about left versus right; it's about top versus bottom. ↗

— Jim Hightower

#bottom #left #politics #right #top