Quotes about "Politics & Government"

I was considering running for political office. ”

I'm a Vietnam veteran. I was here when there was no public support, not just for the effort in Vietnam, for the mission in Vietnam, but for our men and women in uniform. ”

Paying more heed to the lessons of the past might teach us to be a little more cautious about some of the political decisions taken today. ”

When I got political that blew our marriage out of the water. I was not the same person and I admit that. ”

My films don't have instant impact because they're dense with ideas that people have not thought about. It takes a while for the American public to wrap its head around some of the things I'm saying. ”

The American public believes that health care is a right and not a commodity. ”

Capitalism and democracy are the opposite of each other. Capitalism is a system that guarantees that a few are going to do very well, and everybody else is going to serve the few. Democracy means everybody has a seat at the table. Everybody. ”

You think history is going to remember the United States as a great democracy? No, they're going to think of us as a nation that became addicted to war. They'll call us warlords. ”

How do you deliver democracy to a country? You don't do it down the barrel of a gun. That's not how you deliver it. ”

In America, we don't, in daily discourse, use the words 'capitalism' or 'socialism.' They've been kind of nonexistent words, I would say, amongst the general public. ”