Quotes About Patronage

There is therefore considerable evidence to suggest that Bhindranwale's release was ordered by the Home Minister. He certainly still enjoyed Zail Singh's patronage.

The American, if he has a spark of national feeling, will be humiliated by the very prospect of a foreigner's visit to Congress -- these, for the most part, illiterate hacks whose fancy vests are spotted with gravy, and whose speeches, hypocritical, unctuous, and slovenly, are spotted also with the gravy of political patronage, these persons are a reflection on the democratic process rather than of it; they expose it in its process rather than of it; they expose it in its underwear.

Los años del segundo gobierno de Yrigoyen (1928-30) fueron los peores en este sentido. La maquinaria clientelar mostró una avidez insólita y la "empleomanía" se desbordó: "A mediados de 1929 todos los departamentos de la administración ya se habían convertido virtualmente en agencias de colocación que servían a los fines políticos del gobierno. El

I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.

The aborigines were a source of wonder and amusement to be alternately fed, clothed, teased, educated, and petted.

Slippery as was Knox's land grab of the entire Waldo Patent, nepotism and patronage were common in those days.

Think of it as the dangle: a wealthy patron can often enjoy favor and influence with a hard-up institution that are far out of proportion to any gifts that have actually been made, because the canny donor learns to dangle the possibility of future gifts, and that is a possibility that the museum or university cannot afford to overlook. When the dangle is executed correctly, there is almost nothing that the institution will not do to keep the donor (or even the prospective donor) happy.