FastSaying

Two truths are all too often overshadowed in today's political discourse: Public service is a most honorable pursuit, and so is bipartisanship.


Olympia Snowe

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

Architecture is a discourse; everything is a discourse. Fashion discourse is actually a micro-discou...
NATE LOWMAN Well, first let me say that I think health care reform is important. It has to be a priority. And ou...
SUSAN COLLINS It's a rarity when someone takes a political risk in Washington today in the public interest.
ARLEN SPECTER The only reason to be in politics is public service. There's no other reason. Frankly, if that&#...
MALCOLM TURNBULL The trouble with man is two-fold; he cannot learn truths which are too complicated.. he forgets tru...
UNKNOWN On the other side, I do believe that the rhetoric we are seeing from the Democrats today is unpreced...
ED GILLESPIE When he entered the anteroom, two women looked up at him. One was Miss Robertson, the governor's sec...
GEORGE P. ELLIOTT I'm a storyteller. I feel like the issue of discourse is an important one because there's a ...
AYAD AKHTAR Winning to often is as disastrous as losing too often. Both get the same results, the falling off of...
KNUTE ROCKNE If ever there was a time for true bipartisanship, it is today.
BRAD HENRY Every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary.
NATHAN HALE All's well that carries on well
AMIT ABRAHAM I think service is honorable, and that was always inculcated in me.
RACHEL MADDOW Pursuit of contentment is not the pursuit of an elusive tomorrow; it is the celebration of today. In...
MAJID KAZMI Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted p...
CORNEL WEST In the past, great communicators were great orators, but great communicators today sound conversatio...
DEBORAH TANNEN There are so many rumours about so many of us in the public eye. Sometimes it's too hard to deny...
STEVEN SPIELBERG Our country's political discourse and debate are enriched by discussions of the political implic...
DAVID PRICE Disinterested public service has become, just so... what's the phrase, 'old school.'
TINA BROWN I think life is difficult and that's that. I am not at all - absolutely not at all - interested ...
JAMAICA KINCAID Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So ...
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI I think it is very difficult today to have a reasoned public discourse on any controversial subject....
JOHN POINDEXTER The pursuit of what is true and the practice of what is good are the two most important objects of p...
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) The pursuit of what is true and the practice of what is good are the two most important objects of p...
VOLTAIRE I think that in today's world, by nature, we are all self-centered. And that often leads to self...
GARY CHAPMAN Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM Most of all, be honest with yourself and make sure those in political office, our so called public s...
DAVID PRATT It's so hard to write about countries like Haiti because there's truths behind the mispercep...
ROXANE GAY 'Magic' is a word that's too often misused in the record industry.
JIMMY IOVINE You must take this. I hadn't wanted to seem forward and press it upon you without knowing you truly ...
LAURA KINSALE A transient wish crossed his mind; that he could have stayed around and introduced her to the innoce...
LAURA KINSALE I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by bei...
NATHAN HALE There's only one way we're going to change our political climate and ensure we establish som...
MARK MCKINNON Political discourse has become so rotten that it's no longer possible to tell the stench of one ...
P. J. O'ROURKE Today, Rustin is overshadowed by memories of Dr. King and his [I Have a Dream] speech.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPH Civility is not not saying negative or harsh things. It is not the absence of critical analysis. It ...
RICHARD DREYFUSS All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they b...
T. S. ELIOT Public discourse about climate change has resulted in the erroneous idea that it's all about cos...
AMORY LOVINS Ronald Reagan's legacy is deeply misunderstood because there are political actors in America who...
EUGENE JARECKI The venerable Robert E. Lee has taken some vicious hits, as dishonest or misinformed advocates among...
JIM WEBB I think there's no higher calling in terms of a career than public service, which is a chance to...
JACK LEW Hiding in all the thorns, there is a yellow rose.
BEN OAK Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Pol...
PAT RILEY Today a record producer is even more involved and is often the production's sole musician, one p...
TONY VISCONTI 'The Sleeping Beauty' is the greatest, most challenging and most vulnerable of classical bal...
ROBERT GOTTLIEB When people express what is most important to them, it often comes out in cliches. That doesn't ...
TERRENCE MALICK The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truth...
REBECCA WEST There are more truths in twenty-four hours of a man's life than in all the philosophies.
RAOUL VANEIGEM Today's Islamic fundamentalism is also a cover for political motifs. We should not overlook the ...
JURGEN HABERMAS It is one of life's bitterest truths that bedtime so often arrives just when things are really getti...
LEMONY SNICKET You can't divorce religious belief and public service I've never detected any conflict betwe...
JIMMY CARTER Religious relativism is not the answer to disagreement between faiths; yet relativism, and a blurrin...
MEIR SOLOVEICHIK He's a man who... well, one of the great things about Shakespeare is that his characters are inc...
JEREMY IRONS I don't believe that there's such a thing as objectivity in much of journalism, but I think ...
JANN WENNER Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever dev...
RONALD REAGAN There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact. Truths of reasoning are n...
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZ You can not divorce religious belief and public service. I've never detected any conflict betwee...
JIMMY CARTER One's nativity is not of his own choosing, but whatever it may be, it is entitled to respect; an...
PAUL HARRIS Of all the public services, education is the one I'm most interested in. You get a more dynamic ...
GEORGE OSBORNE It's very much the currency of discourse on social media where political disagreements very quic...
NICOLA STURGEON Pursuit is a rather desperate act in itself. There's something kind of frantic about the notion ...
MICHAEL LEUNIG Acting is a business and a political act and a craft, but I also feel like it's a service - spec...
ADAM DRIVER When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real: the truths of the police are the truths of ...
JACQUES PREVERT I was never a fan of Barack Obama's bipartisanship routine.
THOMAS FRANK So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of s...
BILL SIENKIEWICZ My biggest, you know, regret is what happened in Benghazi. It was a terrible tragedy losing four Ame...
HILLARY CLINTON Today's practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday's theory.
KENNETH L. PIKE Today's society will ignore almost any form of public behavior except getting in the express lin...
PAUL SWEENEY Life is a re-discovery.
BRIAN BLESSED If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga...
GARY F EVANS... Life Is a Misconception.
DEYTH BANGER Life is a desire!
DEYTH BANGER To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y...
GARY F EVANS... It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds its...
SALVATORE QUASIMODO In the Indian film industry, especially those of us who are in mainstream cinema, we invariably play...
ABHISHEK BACHCHAN We have to stop this violence. We have to make the political nature of the violence clear, that the ...
PATRICIA IRELAND Looks are temporary and don't mirror what's inside. And usually, a great looking man is so v...
DOROTHY STRATTEN One can spend too much of one's life locked in stuffy rooms seeking out obscure truths, searchin...
JIMMY SANGSTER Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their pa...
F. SIONIL JOSE Belief contains so many truths pertaining to God's Names and the realities contained in the univ...
SAID NURSI A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in char...
ADAM COHEN The public has a distorted view of science because children are taught in school that science is a c...
FREEMAN DYSON I have worked for three decades as a staunch advocate of building a 'big tent' party that in...
OLYMPIA SNOWE Joining the Bipartisan Policy Center is a natural extension of my efforts to achieve results through...
OLYMPIA SNOWE One difficulty in making the Senate work the way it was intended is that America's electorate is...
OLYMPIA SNOWE I have been immeasurably honored to serve the people of Maine for nearly 40 years in public office a...
OLYMPIA SNOWE My concept of government's role in people's lives is that it is limited but legitimate, and ...
OLYMPIA SNOWE When my first husband died, what I tried to do is to sort of, you know, try to bring some rationale ...
OLYMPIA SNOWE We recognized in 1996 that, with progress in the field of genetics accelerating at a breathtaking pa...
OLYMPIA SNOWE Most breast cancer-related deaths can be prevented through simple and painless preventive measures. ...
OLYMPIA SNOWE What is the purpose of public service? It's to solve problems for the people you represent and c...
OLYMPIA SNOWE I've never backed down from a fight and I relish a good debate.
OLYMPIA SNOWE Indeed, we must foster cost-saving competition. And that means joining the marketplace of other indu...
OLYMPIA SNOWE In today's world, it is no longer unimaginable to think that business can operate - and even thr...
OLYMPIA SNOWE At an unprecedented time with the worst attack ever on our soil, our President displayed extraordina...
OLYMPIA SNOWE It is time that we provide clarity for our seniors, informing them of the services available that wi...
OLYMPIA SNOWE The United States Senate wasn't designed to be a majority-rule institution. It was designed to i...
OLYMPIA SNOWE Hopefully, 21 years later, Judge Roberts possesses an openness with respect to issues of gender-base...
OLYMPIA SNOWE You can never solve a problem without talking to people with whom you disagree. The United States Se...
OLYMPIA SNOWE

More Olympia Snowe

I have worked for three decades as a staunch advocate of building a 'big tent' party that in...
OLYMPIA SNOWE Joining the Bipartisan Policy Center is a natural extension of my efforts to achieve results through...
OLYMPIA SNOWE One difficulty in making the Senate work the way it was intended is that America's electorate is...
OLYMPIA SNOWE I have been immeasurably honored to serve the people of Maine for nearly 40 years in public office a...
OLYMPIA SNOWE My concept of government's role in people's lives is that it is limited but legitimate, and ...
OLYMPIA SNOWE When my first husband died, what I tried to do is to sort of, you know, try to bring some rationale ...
OLYMPIA SNOWE We recognized in 1996 that, with progress in the field of genetics accelerating at a breathtaking pa...
OLYMPIA SNOWE Most breast cancer-related deaths can be prevented through simple and painless preventive measures. ...
OLYMPIA SNOWE What is the purpose of public service? It's to solve problems for the people you represent and c...
OLYMPIA SNOWE I've never backed down from a fight and I relish a good debate.
OLYMPIA SNOWE Indeed, we must foster cost-saving competition. And that means joining the marketplace of other indu...
OLYMPIA SNOWE In today's world, it is no longer unimaginable to think that business can operate - and even thr...
OLYMPIA SNOWE At an unprecedented time with the worst attack ever on our soil, our President displayed extraordina...
OLYMPIA SNOWE It is time that we provide clarity for our seniors, informing them of the services available that wi...
OLYMPIA SNOWE The United States Senate wasn't designed to be a majority-rule institution. It was designed to i...
OLYMPIA SNOWE Hopefully, 21 years later, Judge Roberts possesses an openness with respect to issues of gender-base...
OLYMPIA SNOWE You can never solve a problem without talking to people with whom you disagree. The United States Se...
OLYMPIA SNOWE I represent what I think is a traditional Republican... a limited government, fiscal responsibility,...
OLYMPIA SNOWE What motivated me to dedicate myself to public service for nearly two-thirds of my life was the chan...
OLYMPIA SNOWE In a politically diverse nation, only by finding that common ground can we achieve results for the c...
OLYMPIA SNOWE What happens is that, you know, on Mondays, at least in the Senate, you know, Monday night we'd ...
OLYMPIA SNOWE Unfortunately, money in politics is an insidious thing - and a loophole in our campaign finance syst...
OLYMPIA SNOWE I understand why so many Americans are fed up with government. The 112th Congress was almost univers...
OLYMPIA SNOWE Discrimination and bigotry have no place in our society, and I believe Senator (Rick) Santorum's unf...
OLYMPIA SNOWE While we must pursue any legislative option to extend this program, I also urge my colleagues to con...
OLYMPIA SNOWE I think you are putting the cart before the horse.
OLYMPIA SNOWE As we have seen in Bosnia, we have been there for more than three years, and it wasn't just one dead...
OLYMPIA SNOWE Discrimination and bigotry have no place in our society, and I believe Senator (Rick) Santorum's unf...
OLYMPIA SNOWE We must provide adequate funding for an essential program that serves as a lifeline to some of our m...
OLYMPIA SNOWE In today's world, it is no longer unimaginable to think that business can operate - and even thrive ...
OLYMPIA SNOWE Manufacturers and sellers acting within the law should not be held responsible for the actions of cr...
OLYMPIA SNOWE God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it...
OLYMPIA DUKAKIS I feel it most in my work, because there aren't roles about women who are spiritually evolving. ...
OLYMPIA DUKAKIS I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are ...
OLYMPIA DUKAKIS I talk to women's groups all over the country and see women struggling with this. The fear of no...
OLYMPIA DUKAKIS I think we're socialized out of being women, and then we have to find our way back to it. That&#...
OLYMPIA DUKAKIS Stories about the ongoing dramas in our lives as we age are not being told because women find it dif...
OLYMPIA DUKAKIS I think it's because most of us talk one way and live another. There are a few people who truly,...
OLYMPIA DUKAKIS I think we have to be careful about what we label as a prerequisite for spirituality. I don't th...
OLYMPIA DUKAKIS So I constantly play women who are damaged and out of touch, who are seeking without knowing, or kno...
OLYMPIA DUKAKIS Sometimes I feel as if four thousand years of silencing women, of the fear of women who were burned ...
OLYMPIA DUKAKIS The rest of us are still trying to find ways to live in the world with spirit-ual values. Myself inc...
OLYMPIA DUKAKIS Winning is everything in Hollywood.
OLYMPIA DUKAKIS You don't stay married for thirty-nine years because of sex or even because of love, but because...
OLYMPIA DUKAKIS My husband is a fall-away Catholic, but with a vengeance. He's actually more of a feminist than ...
OLYMPIA DUKAKIS Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have fo...
OLYMPIA DUKAKIS When I was a kid, I'd kneel down at the side of my bed every night before I went to sleep, and m...
OLYMPIA DUKAKIS Most of us are not real eager to grow, myself included. We try to be happy by staying in the status ...
OLYMPIA DUKAKIS He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happi...
OLYMPIA BROWN How natural that the errors of the ancient should be handed down and, mixing with the principles and...
OLYMPIA BROWN The more we learn of science, the more we see that its wonderful mysteries are all explained by a fe...
OLYMPIA BROWN When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing...
OLYMPIA DUKAKIS Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty...
OLYMPIA BROWN have added spiritual enrichment, solace, joy and beauty to so many people's lives.
OLYMPIA BROWN When I read of the vain discussions of the present day about the Virgin Birth and other old dogmas w...
OLYMPIA BROWN Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty...
OLYMPIA BROWN Endless sorrow has fallen upon my heart. He was one of the truest and best men that ever lived, firm...
OLYMPIA BROWN The grandest thing has been the lifting up of the gates and the opening of the doors to the women of...
OLYMPIA BROWN The Old Testament teems with prophecies of the Messiah, but nowhere is it intimated that that Messia...
OLYMPIA BROWN [Premiere found The Red Shoes, about a young ballerina torn between love and career,] weighed down b...
OLYMPIA DUKAKIS