Quotes about "Politics & Government"

I really don't like plays or movies that service propaganda. ”

If scientists could communicate more in their own voices - in a familiar tone, with a less specialized vocabulary - would a wide range of people understand them better? Would their work be better understood by the general public, policy-makers, funders, and, even in some cases, other scientists? ”

Authorities arrest me, release me, and then invite me back to host public events. I think it's interesting. ”

Everywhere in the world there are tensions - economic, political, religious. So we need chocolate. ”

We need to be very careful in making judgment on opening borders and adopting immigration policies, as these are areas where political and emotional elements feature prominently. ”

While the developed world has shifted from agriculture to manufacturing and then to services, the number of jobs has always climbed. ”

Trying to be a sort of intellectual in the public arena is very irritating to people. They think, 'Why is this bugger on television?' ”

Status anxiety definitely exists at a political level. Many Iraqis were annoyed with the US essentially for reasons of status: for not showing them respect, for humiliating them. ”

I was downright obnoxious. In second grade, we had some program where we kept a public list of all the books we read. I think it even included the number of pages. In my nerdy mind, having the longest and most impressive list was somehow going to make up for the fact that I couldn't climb a rope or do a backwards summersault in PE. ”

I was not able to understand how it could be right to pay an actor, or a singer, or an instrumentalist for entertaining the public and wrong to pay a ball player for doing exactly the same thing. ”