Quotes about "Politics & Government"

Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line. ”

You get way better from playing to the passing public. You learn how to entertain. But it took me a good three years out on the promenade to figure that out. You also learn what makes them stop dead in their tracks and what doesn't. ”

I am not a performer but occasionally I deliberately work in a public context. Some sculptures need the movement of people around them to work. ”

Everyone is entitled to their own political opinions. It is what makes our country great. ”

The hardest thing in leadership is managing your own psychology, and yet it's also the least talked about. ”

I'm against voter fraud in any form, and I have long supported a national voter ID card. But ID cards need not - and must not - restrict voting rights in any way, shape or form. ”

Having personally watched the Voting Rights Act being signed into law that August day, I can't begin to imagine how we could have all been so wrong in believing that more Americans would vote once they were all truly free to do so. ”

Everybody in America has been dependent on the government at some time. We owe everybody in America the right to vote and access to capital. What I say is, let's make America work, let's make democracy and free enterprise work for everybody. ”

There can be no democracy without truth. There can be no truth without controversy, there can be no change without freedom. Without freedom there can be no progress. ”

I would not outlaw or eliminate private health insurance. But if we do a good enough job, with a robust public option, there really should not be as much of a need for private insurance in the market. ”