Quotes about "Politics & Government"

And then the conditions of safety - or lack of safety - for teachers in public schools, and the disparity between public schools and private schools is shameful. ”

I was friends with President Ronald Reagan and he once said to me, 'I don't know how anybody can serve in public office without being an actor.' ”

But when you have bad governance, of course, these resources are destroyed: The forests are deforested, there is illegal logging, there is soil erosion. I got pulled deeper and deeper and saw how these issues become linked to governance, to corruption, to dictatorship. ”

I am working to make sure we don't only protect the environment, we also improve governance. ”

There are not many companies in China that dare to say in public, 'We don't offer bribes', or companies that operate only by market rules. ”

If I'm talking about something current, a current issue or something political, it's because I was able to read it when I was on the plane getting to the gig... a lot of it happens when I'm on the road because when I'm home, you're just mom, and that's it. ”

Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it. ”

The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public. ”

The nature of a democracy consists to an important degree in the right of the people to criticize problems and mistakes. ”

No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people. ”