Quotes about "Politics & Government"

I think where political issues invade moral situations, spiritual leaders have to speak out. ”

You start realizing that maybe you're the one night a month that people have out, and they don't need to hear your political views or how dark you can get. They just want to laugh for an hour and go home. Once I wrapped my head around that, my act evolved accordingly. ”

The public wouldn't like the perfect umpire in every game. It would kill off baseball's greatest alibi - 'We was robbed.' ”

We have to remain vigilant and loud and stay consistently engaged with our representatives and the political process every single day, on both a macro and micro level. ”

What most people do is try to find a comfortable persona that they're in alignment with and the public likes and appreciates them for. ”

I'm a great believer in poetry out of the classroom, in public places, on subways, trains, on cocktail napkins. I'd rather have my poems on the subway than around the seminar table at an MFA program. ”

The public is probably more suspicious of poets than women, and maybe for good reason. ”

I'm pretty much all for poetry in public places - poetry on buses, poetry on subways, on billboards, on cereal boxes. ”

If you can help anyone in any way, that is what we are here for. The pinnacle of my life has really been two lives - golf and service to my fellow man. ”

We read our own political content into The Clash, and they accepted it. ”