Quotes about "Politics & Government"

I had been raised in the mountains of Idaho by a father who distrusted many of the institutions that people take for granted - public education, doctors and hospitals, and the government. ”

Even though I was away from the public eye, I was in the public memory. ”

We want to believe racism is an artifact of the past, and if you have a political massacre, that contradicts that. ”

Donald Trump begins his political career in birtherism. That idea is connected to a very, very old notion that African-Americans are not citizens. ”

There's a long tradition of black folks pleading with white people. It's a tradition that emerges from political necessity, so I get it; I'm just not very interested in it. ”

When people hear the term 'political prisoner,' especially on the Left, it becomes a kind of abstraction. Folks are aware of injustice, and they're aware that there are folks in prison who are in prison, you know, largely because of their activism. ”

! want to leverage the creativity of researchers across mathematics, statistics, data mining, computer science, biology, medicine, and the public at large. ”

My first direct encounter with the military was when I joined ROTC as a graduate student, although my father, who served in the U.S. Marine Corps, can trace the military service in our family all the way back to the Revolutionary War. ”

I'm glad that people know my military service. But, like this nation, we are more than our military. And the rest of our story is the same as the rest of my story. ”

I had been pursuing a Ph.D. in political science when my National Guard unit was sent to Iraq. Eight months into our deployment, in November 2004, a rocket-propelled grenade fired by Iraqi insurgents tore through the pilot's side of the Blackhawk helicopter I was flying. ”