Quotes about "Politics & Government"

Debate is almost non-existent and no one is apparently accountable to anybody apart from their political party bosses. It is bad news for democracy in this country. ”

I've been in a serious conversation with one of my children, and a fan has come up. I've been in a public bathroom and had the hand come under the stall with a paper and pen. That sort of thing anybody can live without. ”

I think that all of us are 5-year-olds and we don't want to be embarrassed in the schoolyard. I've gone through things in my life. People say it must be so hard to do it in the public eye, but the truth is, when you go through hard things, it's just hard. ”

I realized that public affairs were also my affairs. ”

There is more and more data indicating that there is a biological basis to your political views. ”

In terms of having views and being prepared to express them, yes, I think New Zealand's had a leadership role in a lot of things. ”

It's fair to say that, for much of my lifetime, New Zealand certainly was a property-owning democracy and working people, ordinary people, had assets. ”

Because the completion of labour service was a precondition for permission to study at the university, I was able to begin my studies of Germanistics and Classical Philology during the summer term of 1939. ”

For me, my business is my business and my house is my house. I don't want the public in my house. ”

My sense, talking to the general public around the country, is that most people don't have a very high level of scientific literacy. ”