Quotes about "Politics & Government"

Political corruption is endemic all over this country, in some places worse than others, right? On crime, you have all the major American cities where the crime rates at different points in their histories, have spiked dramatically. ”

There are excellent public interest grounds to have a search engine whose rankings are transparent. ”

I think there is widespread agreement that there is a crisis in public education. ”

Failing to continue to support the public higher-ed system in California will have devastating long-term consequences. ”

The public is increasingly disgusted with a steady diet of defamation, and prepared to reward those who refrain from it. ”

We see government's mission as fostering and enabling the important realms - our businesses, service clubs, Little Leagues, churches - to flourish. ”

No enterprise, small or large, public or private, can remain self-governing, let alone successful, so deeply in hock to others as we are about to be. ”

The federal government now spends one of every four dollars in the entire economy. It borrows one of every three dollars it spends. No nation, no entity, large or small, public or private, can thrive, or survive intact, with debts as huge as ours. ”

Sure, things could always have been done better, but I just wish people would drop their political hammers for a few weeks, as happened in 2001, and work on the problem at hand. ”

Before, you only had one Public Enemy and one Rakim and one Salt 'N' Pepa. Now, people have got the formula, and some of them are just doing it for the cheque. It's kind of watered down. ”