Logo
Quote by Herbert Hoover
When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor when we have a constr

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

Other quotes by Herbert Hoover

New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure. – Herbert Hoover

Category:
Science
Author
Herbert Hoover
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Politics
category

The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime. – Chuck Palahniuk

Category:
Politics

I am not at all a politician. I dont think Im cut out for politics. I am certainly not going to stand for election. – Pervez Musharraf

Category:
Politics

My mother, Lillie Specter, was an angel and totally uninterested in politics. – Arlen Specter

Category:
Politics

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times. – Winston Churchill

Category:
Politics

Random Quotes

You know, I dont really do that much looking inside me when Im working on a project. Whatever I am becomes what that film is. But I change you change. – Steven Spielberg

Category:
Change

Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom. – Buddha

Category:
Self

To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business. – J. Paul Getty

Category:
Business

Every day, every birthday candle I blow out, every penny I throw over my shoulder in a wishing well, every time my daughter says, Lets make a wish on a star, theres one thing I wish for: wisdom. – Rene Russo

Category:
Birthday