#ship

A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both. ↗

— Fawn M. Brodie

#both #combination #either #friendship #insatiable

Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family. ↗

— Joseph Brodsky

#cherish #connections #family #friends #friends and family

Brotherhood is not just a Bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for all. ↗

— Heywood Broun

#brotherhood #come #comradeship #happy #happy life

I knew I could not maintain that leadership in open struggle against Moscow influence. Only two Communist leaders in history ever succeeded in doing this - Tito and Mao Tse-tung. ↗

— Earl Browder

#communist #could #doing #ever #history

For many members of Congress, the time for choosing is near - do what the party leadership demands, or do what the people have asked you to do. If my colleagues don't mind some advice from a newcomer, I'd suggest going with the will of the people. ↗

— Scott Brown

#asked #choosing #colleagues #congress #demands

It is past time for Republican leadership to answer for record deficits and reckless spending, both in Iraq and in the U.S. It's time for a plan to bring our troops home. ↗

— Sherrod Brown

#both #bring #deficits #home #iraq

The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there. ↗

— James Buchanan

#elicit #greatness #humanity #into #leadership

Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship; it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting. ↗

— Eustace Budgell

#either #esteem #first #friendship #imperfect

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#democracy #dictatorship #difference #first #later

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time. ↗

— George W. Bush

#country #duty #from time to time #honor #leadership