A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.
Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations Library, 1997.
-- Fawn M Brodie, (Sep 15 1915-1981), US author; She wrote biographies of Sir Richard Burton, Joesph Smith, Thomas Jefferson; won Knopf biography award, 1943.