Quotes about "Politics & Government"

Although the ACLU would argue that it is unconstitutional for me, as a public official, to do this in a government building, let alone at a football game, I will end with my prayer for the next administration: Please God, no more Souters. ”

I'm not a political guy. ”

I believe there ought to be school choice, so that parents can choose within the public school system. ”

A profound political question is suddenly on the table: Must the country continue to give precedence to private financial gain and market determinism over human lives and broad public values? ”

As the world's finest democracy, we do not do guillotines. But there are other less bloody rituals of humiliation, designed to reassure the populace that order is restored, the Republic cleansed. ”

Nevertheless, I resist cynicism and continue to believe in the possibilities for genuine democracy. ”

Americans cannot teach democracy to the world until they restore their own. ”

Men who do not contend in earnest can have little warmth and fervor in what they undertake, and are more than half prepared to betray the cause, in the vindication of which they have engaged their services. ”

In the two novels I have published, it was my fortune at different times, and from different persons, to hear the most unqualified censure long before it was possible for me to hear the voice of the public. But my temper was not altered, nor my courage subdued. ”

Human depravity originates in the vices of political constitution. ”