Quotes about "Politics & Government"

Certainly we disagree with the Communist Party, as we disagree with other political parties who are trying to maintain the American way of life. ”

My grandfather Prescott passed down the idea that you would only run for office after you had built a financial base - then it was time to give back and go into public service. ”

Without question, my grandfather's example of public service throughout his life inspired Dad later to run for office himself. Wherever he went, whatever he did, Prescott Bush had plenty of admirers. ”

As more time passes, people see my father for what he is - one of the last of a generation who went into government to answer a call to public service rather than to pursue a career in politics. ”

I just didn't have the desire to run for political office. There are other things that I like to do, and it just wasn't my choice. But if it had been my choice, I certainly would have done it. ”

My assumption when I began writing was that you were never going to make any money. And you were never going to reach everyone. Therefore you had to do as much as you could in the service of something you genuinely believed in. And if you do that and people get upset, well, there you go. ”

Happy are those who dwell apart from the harrowing tumults of public life! ”

When I became political and Communist, it was because they were the only people I had ever met who fought the color bar in their lives. ”

With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how. ”

Journalism still, in a democracy, is the essential force to get the public educated and mobilized to take action on behalf of our ancient ideals. ”