Quotes about "Politics & Government"

Schools should be open. If it's a public education, and the school in your district is poor-performing, you should be able to put your student or kid wherever you want. ”

Sometimes our awards process can be very political in terms of just driving personal agendas, and I think we forget. ”

My door will always be open to those who genuinely renounce violence and seek peaceful accommodation into our nascent democracy. ”

Democracies, unlike dictatorships, are forgiving and generous, but they cannot survive unless they fight. ”

Equating brutality and despotism with leadership is not an American value. ”

I'm not a member of a political party, and I feel very, very comfortable being independent. Even if I weren't a journalist - if I were doing whatever - I would be an independent. ”

Don't get me wrong: politicians have been lying for a long time, long before Donald Trump was born, but the degree of just nonstop rage, grievance, prevarication, I haven't seen, probably because we haven't had a direct line from a politician's id to the public before. ”

Public policy is a study in imperfection. It involves imperfect people, with imperfect information, facing deeply imperfect choices - so it's not surprising that they're getting imperfect results. ”

I thought I'd grow up to be a teacher, or maybe run for political office. ”

My mom gets so upset at me when I say stuff in the press about anything political, and it drives me crazy because I say to my mom: 'I can't be on the side of any sort of war and I'm not going to be.' ”