Quotes about "Politics & Government"

The working class of England take their deracination completely for granted. Disenchantment is the happy code that informs every byway of the underclass: service jobs, celebrity dreams, Lotto wins, leisured poverty on pre-crunch credit cards, it's all there, part of the story of an English people whose grandparents never had it so good. ”

In Britain, the great hidden secret of talking animals and children's literature is how political it was in its bones, beneath the obvious cuteness. ”

I probably owe my political dismay to New Labour, but also my growing sense that the satirical shape of human affairs is international and historical, not glued to the tawdry ambitions of a team of politicians who represent nothing but themselves. ”

I think the rise of A.I. is bigger than the rise of mobile. Large companies are sometimes as worried about startups as startups are about large companies. Ultimately, it will be about who delivers the best service or product. ”

When I went up to Glasgow University in 1967, student life was dominated by 13-hour debates on Fridays, when one of the student political clubs would form the 'government' for the day and attempt to push through a piece of legislation, which the other clubs either supported or opposed. ”

The best public poems aren't necessarily those that go at the subject like a bull at a gate. ”

They defined what was private and what was public and they would move it whenever they wished. ”

The UK public have repeatedly shown enormous generosity to those in need. ”

Give tax breaks to large corporations, so that money can trickle down to the general public, in the form of extra jobs. ”

Unlike the general public, I rather like most politicians. ”