Quotes about "Politics & Government"

Without an educated populace, democracy cannot sustain itself. ”

I lost interest in being in the public eye. ”

I think anytime you work on something, even if you feel really good about it, you're never really sure. Once it's in the public space, it's out of my hands. ”

I'm not such a public person. ”

Notre Dame and Sydney - that was nothing. Notre Dame doesn't have a police station; it is not 1,000 or so feet high. It was a public structure, very easy to access. And Sydney Harbour Bridge was half-and-half: a bridge, in the middle of the night. The World Trade Center was the end of the world. Electronic devices, police dogs. ”

I studied political science and international relations, so I never considered myself an artist. ”

I studied political science and international relations and had the intention of becoming a journalist or work in foreign affairs. I had no intention of making a film. ”

When you look at 'Grapes of Wrath,' the weakest moments are those in which Steinbeck is spouting a political idea directly at the reader. The book's real power comes from its slower, broader movement. ”

Fundamentally, all art is about human beings. You're always showing larger moral questions through the smaller moral, philosophical, or political choices through one character in the book. ”

The Nobel Prize gives one the opportunity to take public stands. ”