Quotes about "Politics & Government"

Treating people fairly and with civility is not a bad thing... It would be good for our country if political leaders actually took that to heart. ”

My wife is not a public person. She is uncomfortable with the limelight, which is why I love her. I don't want a political wife - I want someone who, when I get home, I can have a normal life with. ”

I never felt comfortable with making political decisions based on whether, you know, it was the right thing to do in terms of a poll. ”

I've been so blessed to be part of a family that has dedicated its life to public service. ”

We need to end the government monopoly in education by transferring power from bureaucracies and unions to families. The era of defining public education as allegiance to centralized school districts must end. ”

Any time an elected official in the world we're in today that appears so dysfunctional challenges a core constituency not of their opponent but of their own political base, I think we should pause and give them credit. ”

R&D has been an obsession in Europe for many, many years. There is this magical number which many governments aspire to do, and that is to invest at least three percent of GDP in research and development. When you look at the number, it's a composite of private and public investment in R&D. ”

And as soon as the Internet hit and people started having their own web sites, I realized that people who did what I did, our positions were being threatened because, as journalists, we were the conduits between the celebrities and the public. ”

How can people in other countries who are trying to grasp our plan of democracy avoid stumbling over our logic when we deny the first steps in democracy to our women? ”

Small use it will be to save democracy for the race if we cannot save the race for democracy. ”