Quotes about "Politics & Government"

No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service. ”

With real estate, it's location, location, location. In public speaking, it's acoustics, acoustics, acoustics. ”

In public relations, you live with the reality that not every disaster can be made to look like a misunderstood triumph. ”

Pop was a devout Roman Catholic; I'm a lapsed Catholic. I'm not the village atheist, but I exert my right not to believe, and I doubt I would have been very public about that were he still alive, simply just so as not to hurt his feelings. ”

I cast my first vote on my father's lap in 1960, for Richard Nixon, in the voting booth. I was 8. ”

I am not a political thinker. I'm not even much of a thinker. I'm a hack novelist. ”

We make our public servants jump through quite a few hoops, you know. We get hysterical if they accept a $50 lunch from a lobbyist. We get hysterical if they accept a ride on some corporate jet. ”

America has survived and grown stronger through September 11th and subsequent wars with Afghanistan and Iraq and those who seek to do us harm. We have faced - and met - tremendous challenges ramping up a public health and safety system to protect Americans from future threats. ”

Today's energy mix is the result of yesterday's consumer habits, considerable investment, and various political decisions. The potential of renewable energies, now a well-established fact, is undeniable if given the time to arrive at the technical and economic maturity that will free them from subsidization policies. ”

I am almost neurotically private myself. Because I think it's an important distinction to make between privacy and public sphere. ”