Quotes about "Politics & Government"

I have friends, political scientists, sociologists, who all share an interest at least in certain kinds of science fiction. ”

I always believed in burning up the government's political capital, not being Mr Safe Guy, you know? ”

You get one chance to do something about native title. You get perhaps one chance in your life to do something about a republic. You get one chance, your chance, to build a piece of the political architecture in the Pacific. I wasn't going to give those up. ”

The only reward in a public life is public progress. You stand back and say, 'What did I get out of it?' You look around, and the place is better, and that's it. ”

In the past, the U.S. has shown its capacity to reinvent its gifts for leadership. During the 1970s, in the aftermath of the Nixon abdication and the Ford and Carter presidencies, the whole nation peered into the abyss, was horrified by what it saw and elected Ronald Reagan as president, which began a national resurgence. ”

Democracy has many enemies, and the terrorist is only one of them. ”

When people talk about political correctness, the only element of any value is good manners. ”

Courage is the essential element in any great public man or woman. ”

Global warming, like Marxism, is a political theory of actions, demanding compliance with its rules. ”

We were the first small American jazz group since Sidney Bechet in 1927 to play for the public in Moscow and Leningrad. ”