Quotes about "Politics & Government"

I lived my twenties in a very public manner and if anyone's twenties are documented it's not always going to be pretty. ”

I am not protesting against the conduct of the war, but against the political errors and insincerities for which the fighting men are being sacrificed. ”

The part of my writing I find the most rewarding is when people write to me or speak to me in public to tell me how his or her life has been changed by my books. ”

Communism seemed to be an ideal experiment in trying to achieve a state where all persons have greater democracy. I might add, like other persons here and elsewhere, I found myself concerned with the problem of increasing need for greater economic and political democracy for greater numbers of people. ”

It was the biggest suppression of voting rights in our country's history since Jim Crow. And the thread of race runs from the beginning to the end of my book. ”

On health care, virtually every political error that could be made was made. ”

At various points, I've had a massive chip on me shoulder. I had fights about me accent with loads of those fellers you get from third-class public schools. They used to think I was speaking German. ”

On a personal level, I think the political situation in Sri Lanka is very much on the mind of Sri Lankans in Canada. They have family here and family back home, and it's possible they've lost members in any one of those tremendous, unbearable events there. ”

Whilst the Internet is amazing, someone with a laptop can make something amazing and send it out, but you grow up creatively in a very public way. ”

If you look at the origins of the postal service in the U.S., the founding fathers created it to protect democratic rights. ”