Quotes about "Politics & Government"

This epidemic of student demands for 'safe places' to protect against threatening words and ideas would make a great science fiction film, but unbelievably, events seem to be outpacing the political imagination. ”

The mainstream media and most of the political establishment are too quick to slander as 'nativist' the advocacy of barring of Islamist radicals from legal entry into the United States. ”

1984' is terrifyingly relevant. It generates a political conversation, but it's an exciting piece of theatre. Every day, there are things to be spawned from Orwell's mind, whether it's in England or America, terrorist-related or government-related. ”

One doesn't want one's democracy to behave like a dictatorial or fascistic police. One doesn't. ”

The idea that public safety, the safety of the innocent, is an absolute which trumps every other consideration, is tacitly abandoned in the way we live. ”

I've voted in every election - not always for the same political party and never with any degree of enthusiasm. ”

James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized. ”

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting. ”

Tax cuts for the rich defund the critical public programs on which American families depend. ”

Despite the frequent use of coal miners as a potent political symbol, coal jobs are disappearing - and they're not coming back. ”