Quotes about "Politics & Government"

There is a sense in which we have - like, I go in to teach a class; I may be somewhat different than I would be talking to you, although it's related because it's public. I'm very different with my roommate or my lover or my cats. But I don't know if that means you're acting, really, if you're being truthful. ”

I wasn't ever anybody who had a political thing against marriage, but I just thought, 'Why would I want to do that?' ”

When you have police officers who abuse citizens, you erode public confidence in law enforcement. That makes the job of good police officers unsafe. ”

I've been through so many different political races. ”

The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy. ”

I'm actually in a tradition of classicists with a big public face who like sounding off. ”

To find ways of practicing democracy, not ways of orating about it, is our great problem. ”

Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds. ”

Upon the principles of reason, the good of many is preferable to the good of a few or of one; a lasting good is to be preferred before a temporary, the public before the private. ”

In the evening of the first day my father conducted us to the public baths. ”