"Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married."
― C. Northcote Parkinson
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― C. Northcote Parkinson
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- "Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion."
- "A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn."
- "In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want."
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- "Finality is not the language of politics."― Benjamin Disraeli
- "When I got into politics, it was a shock. People promise all sorts of things and then never deliver."― Matt Gonzalez
- "I guess you’d call me an independent, since I’ve never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label."― Jackie Robinson