Quotes about "Politics & Government"

If you choose to put political expediency and politics ahead of the men and women on the ground, for that, you'll have to answer to yourself. I find it morally reprehensible. ”

Old ideas of not trading because 'they won't open their markets to us' miss the entire point of allowing goods to be imported into the United States - because we want and need them and because someone here believes that the good or service received in exchange for our dollars creates value for them. ”

I believe in servant leadership, and the servant always asks, 'Where am I needed most?' ”

I'm a small-town kid who grew up with a cornfield in the back yard and dreaming of serving my country in public office. ”

Donald Trump gets it: he's the genuine article. He's a doer in a game usually reserved for talkers. And when Donald Trump does his talking, he doesn't tiptoe around the thousand new rules of political correctness. ”

Despite the hysteria from the political class and the media, smoking doesn't kill. ”

Negative personal attacks have no place in public life and serve to erode public confidence in our basic institutions of government. ”

I'm at a point now where I crave healthy musical environments, where there is a genuine exchange of ideas without repressed envy or resentment, and where people in the band want to be there regardless of what public accolades may come their way. Unfortunately, Mr. Bungle was not one of those places. ”

Politics isn't something that really interested me; I, of course, care about what's going on in the world, but so much of political discourse now is not necessarily about doing what's right. ”

I don't know that a political climate - as long as it's still a free country - makes much difference in the film world. ”