Quotes about "Politics & Government"

The one public system in which America goes out of its way to provide services to African-Americans is prison. ”

Why is the public so interested in movies about the wealthy? My answer is that Shakespeare wrote about kings. That's where the action is. And it's the classic, cathartic thing. You get to indulge in a lifestyle you're not part of, a tragic error leads to a downfall, and you get to say, 'Thank God I'm not him.' ”

The hope of a nation depends on a president that will follow through even in the most unfavorable of political climates. ”

It's fashionable to speak about vulnerable populations in medicine and public policy, but it's harder to find a more vulnerable population than those who are dying. ”

At a grand evening service in a church, my concerto created such a furor that the worshippers rushed out to keep the crowd outside the church quiet. ”

I don't think you can create effectively toward expectation. I'm not in the service business. ”

When I first came to Oxford, I struggled to feel comfortable in an Anglican, public school-dominated institution. ”

The British press has an insatiable appetite for making public things that should be private. It's a prurience that I've never understood. ”

I'm a private person who doesn't relish making her personal life public. ”

We're all in the service business. If you hire me to do a job I expect everybody else to be where I am. A little bit of crazy is good. It keeps things - balanced. ”