Censure/politics

Famous quotes containing the words censure and/or politics:

    “I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.”
    —Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

    “All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are “up to a point.””
    —George F. Will (b. 1941)