Quotes about "Politics & Government"

I guess you could say I'm an addict - an adrenalin addict - I get great excitement and stimulation from doing stuff in public, even though I'm nervous and I have very bad stage fright. ”

I was with the CIA for only three years. I worked in the Directorate of Operations, which is now called the National Clandestine Service. It's the part of the organization where the spies live. I didn't have much experience beyond the training. ”

Across the continent, political divisions are deepening. For all of these reasons, the specter of a euro zone collapse has not been dispatched. ”

What's happened to broadcasting is that broadcasting really used to be... it used to have a very clear public service quotient. And it's more or less now. And it's been lost. ”

I've not conducted my life in the service of smallness. ”

If you're going to run a public company, be absolutely certain of what the parameters are, what the clarity is, that you can explain it to yourselves and explain it externally. ”

We still need to feed the public, both physically and intellectually. ”

In America, unlike England, unlike Israel, unlike Japan, other democracies, we have elections that have staggered terms. ”

Today, many people take for granted the notion that people whose lives are going to be very heavily affected by public policies should have a say in how they are formulated and carried out. ”

Let us not say that we will decide on a political basis at the national level that no State is competent to regulate the practice of medicine in that State if they decide to allow a doctor to prescribe marijuana, because that is what we are talking about. ”