Quotes about "Politics & Government"

One of my first public performances was singing hymns at a funeral for a friend of our family. ”

I do not believe any of the statistical claims that are made about public opinion. I don't see why anybody does. ”

A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people's hope. ”

If I'm in a political argument, I think I can, with reasonable accuracy and without boasting, put the other person's side of the case at least as well as they could. One has to be able to say that in any well-conducted argument. ”

When you've been a character in a movie - and this has happened when we've done concerts as Spinal Tap or as The Folksmen - people see you as characters walking out of a movie. And you appear in public, then, to play, it's a very schizophrenic thing. ”

The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a public school. ”

I care more about telly because it made me an actor and there's a much more immediate response to TV. You can address the political or cultural fabric of your country. ”

When the public's right to know is threatened, and when the rights of free speech and free press are at risk, all of the other liberties we hold dear are endangered. ”

I don't care what the public wants, I'm going to give it what it needs! ”

This freedom of political discussion on the highest level is something which Western civilization has in common with that of classical antiquity, but with no other. ”