Quotes about "Politics & Government"

In any election, it's important that the public perceive that the election is held fairly. ”

It's the concept of having a computer voting machine that bothers me, more so than the specific poor implementation that we have from Diebold. ”

For some 25 years, I worked as a librarian, first at the New York Public Library, then at Trenton State College in New Jersey. My life has always been with, around, and for books. ”

With the Black Lives Matter movement, a lot of the focus is on the protest and dissent. I'm hoping to dismantle the public notion - for folks outside of the community - of what Black Lives Matter means. It's really about saying that black lives matter: that humanity is the same when you go inside people's homes. ”

People think of the military as being about guns and fighting wars, but it's really about service to country and community. ”

What the general public doesn't always understand is that wrestlers often only have hours to put things together, not days or weeks, except in certain cases. ”

I've been Austin almost half my life. In almost every public setting, that's why I'm there - to be Austin Aries. ”

That is what happened in 2010. The administration and the leadership of the Republicans thought, 'Well, we're making a deal together; we're showing the world things can be done in a bi-partisan way. We're extending all our tax cuts for two years.' ”

Trade has helped the economy grow. Simultaneously, a sizable number of Americans haven't shared in that bounty, and if we don't pay attention to their concerns, all the political favor for open markets will dry up. ”

I'm pretty happy not to be an insider anymore. There's just no common ground. I don't know if it's distrust or that the politics is substantially more partisan than the public. But there's no pressure to make a grand bargain on fiscal matters, on growth, on anything. ”