Larry Pressler famous quotes

American Hustle shows the FBI making real-life bribes to Washington politicians. I know, because as your U.S. senator, I turned them down.
-- Larry Pressler

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I have a lot of African-American friends.
-- Larry Pressler

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The moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn't your real life.

There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.

I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me, but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is.

The obedient in art are always the forgotten . . . The country is glorious but its beauties are unknown, and but waiting for a real live artist to splash them onto canvas . . . Chop your own path. Get off the car track.

Socrates famously said that the unconsidered life is not worth living. He meant that a life lived without forethought or principle is a life so vulnerable to chance, and so dependent on the choices and actions of others, that it is of little real value to the person living it. He further meant that a life well lived is one which has goals, and integrity, which is chosen and directed by the one who lives it, to the fullest extent possible to a human agent caught in the webs of society and history.

Living a connected life ultimately is about setting boundaries, spending less time and energy hustling and winning over people who don't matter, and seeing the value of working on cultivating connection with family and close friends.

Being a good writer doesn’t make you a good reporter, it takes hustle.

What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle, and giving 110 percent all the time.

When politicians say "I'm in politics," it may or may not be possible to trust them, but when they say, "I'm in public service," you know you should flee.

Politicians have to be committed to people in equal measures.