Patronage Quotes

Whether it's the courts or regional offices of executive agencies, members of Congress want some control over how things are done in their states or districts. As long as they have some influence over the picks, they like the patronage system. - David Lewis

We give ourselves to prayer. We preach a Gospel that saves to the uttermost, and witness to its power. We do not argue about worldliness; we witness. We do not discuss philosophy; we preach the Gospel. We do not speculate about the destiny of sinners; we pluck them as brands from the burning. We ask no man's patronage. We beg no man's money. We fear no man's frown. Let no man join us who is afraid, and we want none but those who are saved, sanctified and aflame with the fire of the Holy Spirit. - Samuel Chadwick

We are endeavoring, too, to reduce the government to the practice of a rigorous economy, to avoid burdening the people, and arming the magistrate with patronage of money, which might be used to corrupt and undermine the principles of our government. - Thomas Jefferson

This threat of cronyism and patronage, I don't think it's a threat anymore. I think it's a promise. - John Gage

This is a fight over power, prestige and patronage. Violence has broken out when the legal outcome is unclear, which it is now. - David Pollock

This great oracle of the East India Company himself admits that, if there is no power vested in the Court of Directors but that of the patronage, there is really no government vested in them at all. - Richard Cobden

This government's preoccupation with race has nothing to do with empowering those disadvantaged by apartheid. It has everything to do with empowering a small elite through cronyism and patronage. - Helen Zille

They knew people so well. They communicated so well. They understood politics, especially patronage politics. - Jack Hanna

There were, first of all, those who agreed with his path, but there were others who caved in to the pressures, the baits, the patronage jobs or other things. - Benjamin Netanyahu