"Politics has ever been about advancing yourself," Richard Holbrooke said.
Service, he added, "was not about advancing yourself, it is about advancing the interests of Americans".
"To advance yourself professionally, you should become a member of one these teams.
This is about connecting with the natural forces to advance yourself spiritually".
He believed that if you were not advancing yourself intellectually, professionally, or monetarily, you were wasting time.
It is not usually considered sinful in Washington to advance yourself; that is pretty much what the place is about.
"We as Catholics at Queen's were very much imbued with the idea that you could advance yourself through education," Carson says, "and we felt that the answer was to be in command of the language".
"This is sort of out of a script right in New Jersey, where you're going to meet at the Tick Tock Diner to rub out your uncle to advance yourself," he said.
"When people have a sense that you believe that there is something bigger than yourself in life," Mr. Schundler said, "I think it gives them confidence that you will show some self-restraint in the exercise of power, that you actually will try to do good, and not just advance yourself".
"Education was always the way to advance yourself," he said, "and here is an example of inner-city children who come from families that have really modest incomes, going to school in the middle of a rundown, depressed urban environment, showing the world they too can excel in academics".
