Quotes about "Politics & Government"

I do not want to be a pawn in a political campaign. ”

In this nation, leadership is dollars. ”

In the area we're discussing, leadership begins on Madison Avenue, on the desks and in the offices of people who spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying what will get them ratings. ”

I guess because the shows were activist in their own way - the marriage of my public activism and my career activism, you know - people understand me very well. They also understand there's a very strong bipartisan part in all of this. ”

The public, hearing pop music, is, without knowing it, also soaking up jazz. ”

As long as we're in a democracy, I have to give what I think the majority of people will enjoy. ”

Conversion and zealotry, just like revelation and apostasy, are flip sides of the same coin, the currency of a political culture having more in common with religion than rational discourse. ”

Under Lenin, hardly less than under Stalin, historians harbored critical opinions at their peril. The writing, let alone the publication, of political diaries was virtually impossible. ”

All political institutions will end sooner or later. The question is when and how. ”

Only by painting the great panorama of history, can the great history-reading public be entertained or satisfied. ”