The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office. – Herbert Hoover
No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him. – Herbert Hoover
When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man. – Herbert Hoover
When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned. – Herbert Hoover
If Greece had gone through a very normal political life, I may have not been in politics. But just the fact that I lived through huge upheavals and very difficult struggles and polarization and the barbarism of dictatorships – that made me feel that we had to change this country. – George Papandreou