Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three, four or five months about the great conservative revival that is sweeping the U.S.," he told an exuberant meeting of Young Democrats in Miami, "I thought that perhaps no one was going to show up. Artemus Ward once said, about 50 years ago, 'I am not a politician and my other habits are good also.' " Arriving in Bal Harbour, Fla., for the annual convention of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., he greeted Big Labor's leaders with a casual weather report: "It's warmer here than it was yesterday...
...seem to conduct your politics with a fine 18th century gusto," Winston Churchill once told an Australian politician. Last week, as a three-week campaign for general elections ended, Churchill's observation was as accurate as ever...
Reading his prepared questions from white cards, Adzhubei's general attitude was more that of a Soviet politician than that of a newsman; he was. by turns, both argumentative and patronizing. "We would be happy,'' he said, "if you, Mr. President, were to state that the interference in the affairs of Cuba was a mistake." Replied Kennedy: "Until the present government of Cuba will allow free and honest elections, it cannot claim to represent the majority of the people. That is our dispute with Cuba...
...they hew closely to the government's chosen line. Even Nkrumah's leftist neighbor, Guinea's Sekou Touré, was put off by this action. Refusing to come to Accra for the installation of Nkrumah, Touré said to a visitor: "Who ever heard of a politician and head of state taking over the direction of all a country's higher education so blatantly? It's too obvious...
...Many Greys. Nehru staunchly defended his neutralist position. Asked at a National Press Club luncheon how he could sit on the fence in a conflict between right and wrong, he sighed wearily. "There are far too many greys in this world," he said. "A politician may aim at the right-he may even perceive the right-but he must convey that perception to others to function. A saint need not-therefore he is often stoned to death...