Quotes about "Politics & Government"

Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table. ”

American public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon. ”

It is not enough to merely defend democracy. To defend it may be to lose it; to extend it is to strengthen it. Democracy is not property; it is an idea. ”

Journalists must not be made accomplices by the secret service to solve its own problems. ”

In the past 20 years and more since China embarked on the road of reform and opening up, we have moved steadfastly to promote political restructuring and vigorously build democratic politics under socialism. ”

The political restructuring we pursue in China is aimed at advancing the self-improvement and development of the socialist political system. We will continue to expand people's democracy and build a socialist country under the rule of law in keeping with China's national conditions. ”

I think all that we would know of America back home is foreign policy, and maybe the snippets of the madness of political culture. ”

I think it is important to differentiate between lip service towards something and actually making change. ”

The public discourse online is not done through the polite language of debate. ”

What is the luck of the draw that me - me - who finally writes a book, it comes out in the - in the - in the time, in the center of the first pandemic, H1N1? And I'm going out on signings, and I'm going out to the public. This is the one time when I need to be hermetically sealed. ”