Quotes about "Politics & Government"

One problem I have with drug companies is that they don't make all their data public. ”

The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people. ”

If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama. ”

Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism. ”

To say that most of us today are purely expansive is only another way of saying that most of us continue to be more concerned with the quantity than with the quality of our democracy. ”

The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service. ”

Life at a public company ain't for me. The board pays you what you're worth, then you get reamed for your compensation. ”

You can't be an entrepreneur and work in a public company anymore. ”

When I started off with Trainspotting, it was the way the characters came to me. That's how they sounded to me. It seemed pretentious to sound any other way. I wasn't making any kind of political statement. ”

When people start writing there is this idea that you have to get everything right first time, every sentence has to be perfect, every paragraph has to be perfect, every chapter has to be perfect, but what you're doing is not any kind of public show, until you're ready for it. ”