Quotes about "Politics & Government"

People close to me personally, politically, have expressed frustration that I'm not the political animal that they wish that I were. ”

Public service and community organizing and movement building is such a part of my DNA that it's really hard to separate it. ”

Because boys tend to dominate the narrative for who's at risk, sometimes they dominate the lion's share of services, too. ”

I'm a storyteller. I feel like the issue of discourse is an important one because there's a lot of political and ideological discourse that goes around, and we relate to that on an intellectual level. ”

I can't be a spokesman for anything other than my own concerns. I have to be free to wrestle with my own preoccupations, and if I'm bringing any political awareness to that process, that mitigates my freedom. ”

Christians - at least Christians in a liberal democracy - have accepted, after Thomas Hobbes, that they must obey the secular rule of law; that there must be a separation of church and state. ”

Chinese Democracy' wasn't trying to tell China to have a democracy or anything like that. I don't have an opinion on what kind of government they should have. My thing is, I went to stay there for about three months, and everywhere I went, the people are so shielded from what's going on in the world. ”

In 1999, I established my political party. ”

I very much favor democracy, but when there is a contradiction between democratic and Jewish values, the Jewish and Zionist values are more important. ”

Any political process has to secure an improvement in the Palestinians' quality of life and education. Attempts to bring about a political arrangement before securing peace to the Israelis and economic improvement for the Palestinians are likely to fail. ”