Quotes about "Politics & Government"

Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised. ”

I went to a fairly normal, middle-of-the-road public school in a suburb of New Orleans, but it gave me huge opportunities. ”

During my eleven years as a New York City public school teacher, I saw firsthand the impact that poverty has on the classroom. In low-income neighborhoods like Sunset Park, where I taught, students as young as five years old enter school affected by the stresses often created by poverty: domestic violence, drug abuse, gang activity. ”

It's an intolerable abuse of power to have employees who are supposed to be advancing the public interest actually working on political campaigns. ”

I'm the British home secretary. My job is to protect the British public. ”

My decision to appoint an inspector is not taken lightly. I hope it sends a strong signal that robust processes are in place to investigate allegations of failures in financial management and governance in local government. ”

I see people all the time today, and they really don't care if their doctor is of Pakistani origin; what they care about is that they are getting a good service, and these are people that they do really see as British. I do think society has changed very positively like that. ”

I think the Right did us a service calling Obama a socialist for eight years. It inoculated us. ”

Bernie is great, but we've got to keep this political revolution going. ”

The reality is, our problem isn't that more people are voting Republican than Democrat - our problem is most people who would vote Democrat aren't voting. ”