Quotes about "Politics & Government"

I'm very wary of large groups of people getting together and trying to believe the same thing. It never seems to end well, whether it's political or religious or whatever. ”

I'm not a guy who plays political games, and I believe absolutely in one method, which is directness. ”

Whatever you may think of Mrs. Clinton as a character, I think she believes quite strongly in public service. ”

I think it's impossible for any of us not to find television, and the political process at its best on television, compelling. ”

The police feel that most of the public are against them and that there is a lot of bad feeling. ”

Democracy for us tends to be has to do with who shouts the loudest! ”

The public, unlike our governing elite, are not obsessed by race and sex. They are rightly interested only in the contents of the person's character. ”

The worst country I ever lived in, the old U.S.S.R., was crammed with privileges for the political elite. They had their own hospital, their own shops, country houses, and blocks of flats, special lanes on the streets so they could bypass the traffic in their special cars. ”

If you know something damaging about a major political figure, then, in a democracy, it is surely your duty to tell the voters before they go to the polls. ”

Donald Trump is a symptom, not a disease. The disease is the death of real political conservatism: a cool, intelligent reluctance to believe that all change is good, a love for the established, the particular, and the well-worn. ”