"For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred." ― John W. Gardner Topic(s): Politics More From John W. Gardner "History never looks like history when you are living through it." "If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are." "We are all faced with a series of great opportunities – brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems." More In Politics "If you’re sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign."― George W. Bush "Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied."― Otto von Bismarck "Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first."― Ronald Reagan