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When I think about voting, I can skip it and still see myself as a good citizen. But when I think about being a voter, now the choice reflects on my character. It casts a shadow. ”
If I had the day off and knew everyone else was voting, I wouldn't miss it. It would become a routine part of my responsibility as a citizen - like paying taxes, only less soul crushing. ”
Acting is a business and a political act and a craft, but I also feel like it's a service - specifically, for a military audience. ”
Acting, to me, has been many things: It's a business, and it's a craft, and it's a political act - it's whatever adjective is most applicable. ”
Tony Blair believed in a consumerist idea of democracy. ”
My goal is to be able to speak to everyone in the country and to be able to make everyone in the country think differently about our political system. ”
I don't want to change people's opinions to my political opinion; I want to enlighten people and make them think about the world differently. ”
Amazon is holding its own because the service it provides - offering millions of books and other items quickly and easily from home at any hour of the day or night - is a real one, and one that was impossible before there was an Internet. ”
We should craft our laws to allow images of criminal suspects to be captured in public - but also to make sure that the government does not unduly infringe on the privacy rights of innocent citizens. ”
A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge. ”