![It is [a politician's] business to get and hold his job at all costs. If he can hold it by lying, he will hold it by lying; if lying peters out, he will try to hold it by embracing new truths. His ear is ever close to the ground.](/assets/img/quote-photos/it-is-a-politicians-business-to-get-and-hold-his-job-at-all-costs-if-he-can-h.jpg)
Related Quotes
jobs people vote
How many people disapprove of the job the Conservatives are doing? Seventy percent. Of those same people, how many will vote for them again? ...Seventy percent. What the f-k? Where did they take this poll, at an S&M parlor? Bill Hicks
jobs college class
Every single thing I`ve done, from the Affordable Care Act to pushing to raise the minimum wage, to making sure that young people are able to go to college and get good job training, to what we`re pushing now in terms of sick paid leave,everything I do has been focused on how do we make sure the middle class is getting a fair deal. Barack Obama
jobs actors persons
Part of an actor's job is to find correlations between your own life and the life of the person you are playing. Daniel Radcliffe
jobs character judging
It’s not the job of an actor to judge your character Daniel Craig
jobs stupid tvs
I expect the audience to assume TV is stupid. I accept that it's my job to overcome it. Dan Harmon
jobs careers people
MCJOB: A low-pay, low-prestige, low-dignity, no-future job in the service sector. Frequently considered a satisfying career choice for people who have never held one. Douglas Coupland
jobs stars war
That aesthetic of the Star Wars universe: the do-it-yourself, hotrod ethic that George Lucas exported from his childhood, is exactly the same kind of soul behind what we do and build for the show. It may not look pretty, but it gets the job done. Adam Savage
jobs horrible-jobs horrible
The main thing that I learned from my horrible job experiences was how horrible they were. Adam Carolla
jobs believe doors
Everything seems overwhelming when you stand back and look at the totality of it. I build a lot of stuff and it would all seem impossible if I didn't break it down piece by piece, stage by stage. The best gift you can give yourself is some drive--that thing inside of you that gets you out the door to the gym, job interviews, and dates. The believe-in-yourself adage is grossly overrated.
lying long black
A convincing demonstration of correctness being impossible as long as the mechanism is regarded as a black box, our only hope lies in not regarding the mechanism as a black box. Edsger Dijkstra
lying stuff actresses
Any actor or actress that tells you that they don't watch their stuff is lying. Amy Poehler
lying ocean sleep
Let us lie down once more by the breathing side Of Ocean, where our live forefathers sleep As if the Known Sea still were a month wide-- Atlantis howls but is no longer steep! Allen Tate
lying remember clinton
What actually happened during the Clinton presidency? No one can remember anything about it except the bimbos, the lies, and the felonies Ann Coulter
lying book satan
So for those of you who haven't read any of my five best-selling books: Liberals are driven by Satan and lie constantly.
lying eye dark
I couldn't resist him, his eyes were like yours, his hair was exactly the shade of brown. He's just not as tall, but I couldn't tell, it was dark and I was lying down. Amy Winehouse
lying tales betray
A false tale often betrays itself. Aesop
lying men justice
My faith in the proposition that each man should do precisely as he pleases with all which is exclusively his own lies at the foundation of the sense of justice there is in me. Abraham Lincoln
lying heart thinking
The release of atomic power has changed everything except our way of thinking ... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. (1945) Albert Einstein
trying technique modern
I wanted to make sure to always stay current, try to find new material and stay with the modern techniques. Rick Baker
trying way being-the-best
I am my own biggest critic ... I'm constantly criticizing myself, constantly trying to find ways to better myself and ... compete and, you know, just be the best. Reggie Bush
trying important each-day
Labour-saving devices just make us try to cram more pointless activities into each day, rather than doing the important thing, which is to enjoy our life. Tom Hodgkinson
trying way looks
I'm just trying to look at something without blinking, to see what it is like, or it could have been like, and how that had something to do with the way we live now. Novels are always inquiries for me. Toni Morrison
trying
Everybody's out trying to be commercial. I'm not trying to be anything, really. Tom Verlaine
trying bars lasts
I put so much pressure on myself to raise the bar with each and every project. I treat it like every film is my last, and I make sure I pour everything I have into every film I make because if I'm not trying to improve, someone else will Scott Adkins
trying littles scared
I guess if I'd had any sense, I'd have been a little scared [to register to vote] - but what was the point of being scared? The only thing they could do was kill me, and it kinda seemed like they'd been trying to do that a little bit at a time since I could remember. Fannie Lou Hamer
trying quality pieces
A bad investment is going for quantity over quality. If you're trying to be careful with your wallet, especially with the economy right now, you have to choose staple pieces. Christian Siriano
trying interviews problem
Always try in interviews to avoid the cliches about the problems of public life. Jack Nicholson