Quotes about "Politics & Government"

Normally, architects render a service. They implement what other people want. This is not what I do. I like to develop the use of the building together with the client, in a process, so that as we go along we become more intelligent. ”

In London - and forget those extra public pressures on politicians - the lovely old Sloane world of manor houses simply hasn't cut it since Big Bang in 1986, the point at which Mrs. Thatcher really started to achieve her ambition to make this country more like America - its ambition, economy, it's very tangible measures of success. ”

America pays its bills. It always has. It always will. The fact that Washington is now debating whether to honor its debts and obligations, then, should come as a surprise. But playing political football with a necessary vote to raise the nation's debt ceiling has become as predictable as a Twitter rant from Charlie Sheen. ”

Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy. ”

Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over, owners turn over and certain commissioners turn over. But baseball goes on. ”

The core problem in our society is political correctness. ”

People are worried about privacy, and its one of the reasons people are using a service like SnapChat. ”

Every time you write an email, it is in the public domain. There are all these ways where security is not as good as people believe. ”

But 85 percent of the mosques have extremist leadership in this country. Most Muslims, the overwhelming majority of Muslims, are loyal Americans. ”

As far as Iraq, the important thing is that the Taliban is gone in Afghanistan, three-quarters of the al-Qaida leadership is either dead or in jail, and we now have Saudi Arabia working with us, Pakistan working with us. ”