Quotes about "Politics & Government"

Jazz music is as American as it gets, and so is the U.S. Postal Service. A Miles Davis stamp is a perfect marriage of two great American institutions. ”

I have healthy disagreements with political parties I'm not aligned with, but I don't think it should be to the point where we're cursing and trying to strangle each other. ”

The public library system of the United States is worth preserving. ”

We need a new tax system. We need entitlement reform. We need immigration reform. These are not easy things. But it is going to take our political system working better. ”

Many of the Western democracies - including the U.S. - have a problem that voters want benefits they don't want to pay for. ”

I'll be voting for Hillary Clinton, with the hope that she can bring Americans together to do the things necessary to strengthen our economy, our environment, and our place in the world. ”

This obsession with leadership... It's not neutral; it's American, this idea of the heroic leader who comes in on a white horse to save the day. I think it's killing American companies. ”

My view of my role is that together with like-minded men and women, I could help contribute to a bipartisan view of American engagement in the world for another period; I could do my part to overcome this really, in a way, awful period in which we are turning history into personal recriminations, depriving our political system of a serious debate. ”

There is obviously a gap between the public's perception of the role of U.S. foreign policy and the elite's perception. ”

Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions. ”