Quotes about "Politics & Government"

I was working at the telephone company in the late '80s as a service representative. ”

We have a responsibility as elected officials to do good public policy in the best interest of all the people. ”

I look up to the older generation of men - Arthur Scargill, Tony Benn, Jeremy Corbyn - but my main role model has been my step-granddad Jim. He's brilliant, very political, quite eccentric. ”

I think all things are political... How women are portrayed - that's a big thing for me. What is this role trying to say about women? Is this woman weak or victimised, and, if so, do we get to understand why? ”

I know I sometimes come across as being quite dismissive about acting. But I'm not. It's like people reading their diaries in public. I don't want to talk about how I create characters. I find it self-indulgent. ”

Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation of virtue; it is less a distinct principle than a natural consequence of the general principle of democracy, applied to the most pressing wants of the country. ”

You must build public policies on reason, on facts. ”

You cannot build public policies on sentiment, on panic and fear. ”

When we tolerate violations to the Constitution, the entire moral foundation of our political system is shaken to its core. ”

A Constitution is not meant to be a flexible arrangement which evolves from one decade to another depending on political expediency. ”