Quotes about "Politics & Government"

I loathe all political parties, which I regard as inventions of the devil. My favourite prime minister was Sir Alec Douglas-Home, not because he was on the Right, but because he spent a year in office without, on his own admission, doing a damned thing. ”

Political correctness is about denial, usually in the weasel circumlocutory jargon which distorts and evades and seldom stands up to honest analysis. ”

Part of science is the questioning of authority, absolute freedom of ideology. The Soviets did some very good science, but when science ran into ideology, it had trouble. Science flourishes best in a democracy. ”

Terrorism is not a public health threat, relative to cancer and heart disease and malaria and so forth. ”

I grew up in San Francisco. And so I'm informed in a certain kind of way about, you know, believing in democracy and believing in America. And I'm a very ardent patriot. ”

I thought Star Wars was too wacky for the general public. ”

I believe that there are certain things that could be taken care of that you don't need a strong political background in. ”

If this country wants to elect someone with no political experience who is racially insensitive and golfs... In my first 100 days, I will make Taco Tuesday the law. ”

To be interested in the public good we must be disinterested, that is, not interested in goods in which our personal selves are wrapped up. ”

The public can only be really moved by what is genuine. ”