Quotes about "Politics & Government"

The big umbrella issue is, do I make a bigger difference on the outside of political process or on the inside? ”

Being a Secret Service agent, I have an obligation not to disclose personal conversations and security details. But that doesn't prevent me from speaking generally about foundational principles and the system of patronage and punishment I saw in the Obama administration. ”

I grew up in Michigan and - where to start? I mean, my dad was a doctor who worked at a jail. He was more like a jail administrator. My mom was a public school teacher. There's no artists in my family whatsoever. ”

Financial pressures, the demand of ratings, the changing tastes of the American public all led to new decisions in newsrooms about what to cover and how. ”

I was in this public high school in Princeton, and it had this topnotch jazz program - if you were a musician of any kind of caliber, your holy grail was to be in that orchestra. It was that claim to fame of the school, of the town, other than the university. But it was better than the university band. ”

The western mindset erroneously equates a political system of multi-party democracy with high-quality institutions... the two are not synonymous. ”

I'm an economist, not a political scientist. ”

The chief internal enemies of any state are those public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people. ”

I made a commitment... both to myself and to some supporters to carefully consider a run for the Liberal leadership for the Liberal Party of Canada. ”

I don't agree with everything that any of our political leaders say or believe - that's going to happen sometimes. ”