The difference between the men and the boys in politics is, and always has been, that the boys want to be something, while the men want to do something.
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Men want power in order to do something. Boys want power in order to be something.
Politics is there the way men and women are there, the way the Atlantic Ocean is there. Sometimes I've written about politics specifically, I mean about politics as it's understood on television and in newspapers.
When men organize themselves into groups, and they make rules based on common or self-interest, it's always tangled and political.
Inflammatory passion and selfish interest characterizes most men, whereas ambition characterizes men who pursue and hold national office. Such men rise from the people through a process of self-selection, since politics is a dirty business that discourages all but the most ambitious.
For some reason, men in politics seem to have a bunch of charisma, and women drop around their feet. I haven't noticed that so much for me and men.
I think sometimes women are not driven by the same, albeit, testosterone power thing that pushes men to get into politics.
One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.
I'd like to see where boys and girls end up if they get equal encouragement - I think we might have some differences in how leadership is done.
Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors.
Politics means competition, especially in senior positions. If you don't know that, you're not especially suited to politics.
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