Quotes about "Politics & Government"

Running a school where the students all succeed, even if some students have to help others to make the grade, is good preparation for democracy. ”

I like working fast, but I got to the age where the real difference between television and the movies is, I'm not smart enough to be in the movies. It's a very political world. In all modesty, I can say that I'm a much better actor, but that doesn't matter. ”

What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending. ”

Nothing can be more striking to one who is accustomed to the little inclosures called public parks in our American cities, than the spacious, open grounds of London. I doubt, in fact, whether any person fully comprehends their extent, from any of the ordinary descriptions of them, until he has seen them or tried to walk over them. ”

At Camp One we were met by Director of Public Works Warwick Greene, grim and grimy. He has been working himself to death to make this transportation plan a success. ”

There is no question that Taiwan is a state in any political science definition of a state. ”

The greater concerns in China and Taiwan are on the political side, not on the economic side. ”

The Chinese government since 1979 has been very successful in economic development, and successful enough, simply by surviving, in the realm of political development. ”

Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship. ”

The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights. ”