Quotes about "Politics & Government"

I remember 'The Shepherd's Dog' record being not necessarily a political record, but a reaction to socio-political situations in America. And it didn't manifest itself as protest or propaganda songs, but there's a lot of surreal imagery that was born out of really me being surprised Bush got re-elected in '04. ”

I am not interested in political writing, because it's limited in its scope. I try to write general, human kinds of songs, which suggest more than they explain. You can take a lot of different meanings, but hopefully everyone feels some kind of recognition. ”

Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that it does not expect, nor often get. ”

If a lecturer, he wishes to be heard; if a writer, to be read. He always hopes for a public beyond that of the long-suffering wife. ”

I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I might lose that independence if I ran for political office. ”

Watergate was unique because it allowed the public to play its democratic role in expressing its outrage at the presidency. And as a result, for the first time in history a president resigned. ”

The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust. ”

The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion. ”

Journalists have sometimes looked to my Twitter account and quoted me from there, and that's fine because that's public domain. I know exactly what I'm doing when I post something on Twitter; in a way, it's saying, 'This is who I am, and I don't have anything to hide.' ”

I think that the legitimacy of the court would be undermined in any case if the court made a decision based on its perception of public opinion. ”