Quotes about "Politics & Government"

If there is a political cause, then there has to be a political solution. ”

Terrorism seems to be the ugly twin of democracy. We need to learn to live with it because we are vulnerable to it. ”

I don't like things I work on to have political didacticism - there are questions, but not messages. ”

I now add, farther, that the apostle's argument is so far from proving it to be the duty of people to obey, and submit to, such rulers as act in contradiction to the public good, and so to the design of their office, that it proves the direct contrary. ”

Common tyrants, and public oppressors, are not intitled to obedience from their subjects, by virtue of any thing here laid down by the inspired apostle. ”

Many of those who argue for vouchers say that they simply want to use competition to improve public education. I don't think it works that way, and I've been watching this for a longtime. ”

Our political establishment refuses to use the word 'segregated.' They call the schools diverse, which means half black, half Hispanic, and maybe two white kids and three Asians. 'Diverse' has become a synonym for 'segregated.' ”

Public school was never in business to produce Thoreau. It is in business to produce a man like Richard Nixon and, even more, a population like the one which could elect him. ”

I am opposed to the use of public funds for private education. ”

Racial segregation has come back to public education with a vengeance. ”