Quotes about "Politics & Government"

First of all, just because the Tea Party people appear to be generally uneducated, ignorant about the political process, ignorant about economics, confused about their own platform from the beginning, and indelicate when it comes to the craft of diplomacy, doesn't mean they're wrong. ”

For me, it all comes down to one issue: if we can get money out of political systems, the whole world will change. ”

Let's not pretend we have too much of a democracy here, because we don't. ”

We may need to change the way we think. As in Israel, I think there should be a mandatory draft, where you go away for the service of your country for three years. ”

Having been given that public trust, we have a responsibility to share with the public. ”

Lincoln's leadership is based on a number of precepts, but my favorite one is that he acted in the name, and for the good, of the people. ”

There are so many rumours about so many of us in the public eye. Sometimes it's too hard to deny what is not true. ”

The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible. ”

I guess I didn't feel confident enough to be searching in a big public way. I was very content at the time to toil in obscurity on things that I thought might point me in certain directions or teach me certain things - not knowing what that would be. ”

I'm almost exclusively interested in what happens behind closed doors, between people. The removal of their public face. ”