Quotes about "Politics & Government"

Michelle Obama has gone from political skeptic to political partner to a woman with a White House agenda of her own, and an approval rating higher than the president's. ”

I've learned that the best political reporters never make predictions! ”

Evangelical Christian politicians who cheat often raise questions about hypocrisy, especially if they preached piety in public and disregarded it in private. When Jewish politicians fall, they shatter different expectations, particularly that American Jews need to work together to preserve respectability and fireproof against anti-Semitism. ”

Anybody who tells you that a two-day conference, you're going to turn into the General Patton of leadership, they're not telling you the truth. But you can learn the fundamentals; you can absolutely understand the fundamentals. ”

Leadership is hard. It's a skill. It's a technique. ”

I found myself serving a sentence of public denial from the very second the raid on my apartment happened. ”

That dichotomy between the public consumption of the work and my intent and practice in making it is an uneasy one for me, on occasion. ”

I loved hip-hop. The first stuff I heard was Public Enemy, and I couldn't believe it. It was amazing, and I've always loved hip-hop. ”

No, I don't want to talk about River. I have nothing to say about it that I would want to be public. ”

In politics, my role model would be a very weird one - our second emperor, Pedro the Second. He was a person with no vanity. He cared a lot about the public interest. He cared a lot about Brazil evolving as an important country. And he didn't ask much for himself. He was ousted from power, and he lived with the help of friends in Paris. ”