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There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friends.

The Temptations still stand today, not in spite of those who left us, but because of them.

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

The temptations to wrong are many; they spring out of a corrupt nature.

Matthew Simpson

Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage.

Laura Schlessinger

You know what, life is full of temptations.

Smokey Robinson

He's meant to be that classic Homer, Ulysses, Hercules - a character who goes out or has some gift of some kind. He goes on a journey of discovery and part of that is falling into darkness - the temptations of life.

Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.

Margaret Oliphant

What I learned with Cecil Taylor was strategy and survival and how to resist temptations and resist getting discouraged.

I beg you to look at the promising boys and beautiful girls in your homes and in your communities, and then you will not put these temptations in their way.

Thomas Jordan Jarvis

The temptations are great to simply retreat to the domain of private life and give up on our public problems.

Lee H. Hamilton

You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside: The security of a job, a wife who wants kids, whatever. But if you hang in there, always following your vision, I have no doubt you will succeed.

The most important lesson I've learned in this business is how to say no. I have said no to a lot of temptations, and I am glad I did.

Given the difficulty of resisting such temptations over the longer run, a proper concern for the welfare of congressional souls may well be the ultimate argument in favor of term limitations.

James L. Buckley