Quotes about "Politics & Government"

I had two different degrees: One in International Relations/Political Science and another degree in Radio and Television Production. ”

Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a no less definite end in the theories of Karl Marx. ”

Women had a rights movement where they fought for changes. Men... don't band together in quite that way. It happens not in such a public-cascade way as in a house-to-house way. ”

I'm going to try to make happy songs or some political songs, like 'A Country Boy Can Survive' - something people can get excited about. ”

The only person out there worthy of mixing political views and music is Jello Biafra. ”

If anybody in my business knew as much about their business as the public did, they'd be all right! ”

Billionaires like the Koch brothers, casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, and political puppet master Karl Rove should not be able to buy our elections. Secret money should not be able to drown out the voices of the American people and sell our Democracy to the highest bidder. ”

As more government functions are privatized, we find political leaders defunding the public school system, shifting government funds to the private, for-profit school industry. ”

The people in the well-ordered ages of the past upheld the public law and abandoned private strategies; they focused their intentions and unified their conduct. Everything they did was for the sake of being employed by the ruler. ”

For believers, both privilege and privation are a trial, and both demand responses: one demands service, and the other demands patience. The greatest privilege is to live well in flourishing lands; the greatest privation is to live in the midst of war, especially civil war. ”