Quotes about "Politics & Government"

I wanted to be an actress. In college I was a serious feminist and very political. I was determined to get one thing out of my career and that was respect. I didn't want money. I didn't care about fame. ”

You are never wrong when you have voted because you've acted in accordance with your conscience and your beliefs, and you've exercised your democratic right, which is, you know, perfectly legitimate in our democracies. ”

The financial industry is a service industry. It should serve others before it serves itself. ”

I'm very much a believer that it's action that matters much more so than, you know, the flurry of political promises and statements and slogans that are used during political campaigns. ”

I have been accused of acting out of partisan political motives. ”

When you open any kind of food service establishment, you do all this planning, but it's not until you've opened the door and people are inside that you learn what people want you to be to them. ”

Raising the minimum wage, as President Obama proposed in his State of the Union address, tends to be more popular with the general public than with economists. ”

As an economic historian, I appreciate what manufacturing has contributed to the United States. It was the engine of growth that allowed us to win two world wars and provided millions of families with a ticket to the middle class. But public policy needs to go beyond sentiment and history. ”

Harvard produces leaders. People with Harvard degrees go on to become administrators in high-level positions in state educational departments and in public schools around the country. ”

Book clubs, both online and in person, have become a large percentage of the reading public, and many of them won't consider reading books in hardcover. ”