Quotes about "Politics & Government"

The political system loves the extremes, it doesn't so much show a lot love for the moderates. ”

Somehow in the public sector, if you start in the mailroom and spend your life getting promoted, it's unseemly. ”

As an Englishwoman, you pick up a lot through osmosis. I've been watching the Queen all my life. But, yes, I did watch news footage and was able to pick a couple of little tics. For instance, she plays with her hands a lot and has a certain way of holding them on her lap when she's in public. ”

I wouldn't say that I'm a naturally political beast. ”

I don't - you know, I'm very disillusioned with our political system. If we don't wake up in America and realize that we have to vote out of our courage and integrity for candidates who reflect our own beatitudes, and not the beatitudes of the war machine and the corporations, we are - we're doomed. ”

58% of the American public are with us. We're preaching to the choir, but the choir's not singing, if all of the 58% started singing, this war would end. ”

I love room service! ”

I just want to be a nice girl from the Midwest - I don't want to have to act like a heavy to be taken seriously, and I resent that I have to be so pushy and political sometimes just to do my job. ”

I remember being 18 and being fed up with everything - fed up with society, fed up with the political system, fed up with myself - and then you kind of go, 'Actually, this voting thing is amazing,' because you have a chance to change it, right? ”

No nation can claim, 'We are an uncorrupt nation, therefore we will tell you what the morals of democracy are.' ”