Quotes about "Politics & Government"

I blush easily. I have difficulty meeting people's eye, difficulty with public speaking, the normal afflictions of the shy, but not to a paralysing degree. ”

You can register a political objection in a number of ways. ”

One hopes that good, sensible and brave people will continue to go into public life at all levels. ”

My family have a long story of service to our country. ”

Numeracy isn't a sign of geekiness, but a basic requirement for intelligent discussions of public policy. ”

Our public figures are often narcissists, utterly self-absorbed in their quest for power. ”

There isn't a political price to be paid yet for doing nothing. People need to get upset with President Bush. People need to get upset with their Congressmen. ”

The photos were taken by African Union soldiers. People in Congress saw them. I thought if people could see them, there would be public outcry. No one would be able to say, We just didn't know what was going on there. ”

I do think that humanitarians and journalists alike have focused on all the things that go wrong, and that they sometimes leave the perception in the public that the war on poverty has been lost. That Africa is just a bottomless pit of despair. When, in fact, really the opposite is true on both fronts. ”

I've always been interested in public health approaches because it seems to me we have this yearning for silver bullets, and that is not in fact how change comes about. Change comes through silver buckshot - a lot of little things that achieve results. That's a classic public health approach. ”