#me

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#government #may #needs #political #president

Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#both sides #country #few #high #high office

Study men, not historians. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#men #study

A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#dead #government #man #politician #statesman

I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved. ↗

— Alice Walker

#culture #enslaved #grew #i #i love

The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass. ↗

— Alice Walker

#either #else #fact #give #got

It was the point where things became much more abstract and less literal than in the bulk of the film, which was hardcore rockets and space and planets - all a fairly straightforward evolution from what I had been doing before. ↗

— Douglas Trumbull

#became #been #before #bulk #doing

One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government. ↗

— Donald Trump

#go #good #good people #government #into

You think of George Washington, this man who was larger than life, and in some ways he was. But at the same time, he's just a person. ↗

— Benjamin Walker

#george washington #just #larger #life #man

I just want to be humble at all times. ↗

— Mike Tyson

#humble #i #just #times #want