Quotes about "Politics & Government"

We have a wider political and economic system in which ancient, landed power still carries immense weight. There is nothing some landowners would like more than to set the police on those who dare to venture into their vast estates. ”

I am a political person, though not with a big P. ”

Your political system is actually too democratic. The fact that Americans vote on every bill and proposition can prolong bigotry indefinitely, especially where it is aimed at minority groups. ”

I've been very well remunerated for my talents over the years so I really don't need the public's money. ”

Stars are almost always people that want to make up for their own weaknesses by being loved by the public and I'm no exception to that. ”

I've never done anything so political before. I've spent years shouting my mouth off about serious issues over dinner tables but never really had the confidence to express my views in a song. ”

People didn't have the political guts to stand up against an American war. ”

No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public. ”

The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation. ”

I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials. ”