Quotes about "Politics & Government"

Astrobiology is a great point of contact for science outreach. The public is naturally interested in extra-terrestrial life. Astrobiology provides an accessible point of access that leads to deeper questions. ”

You need an attitude of service. You're not just serving yourself. You help others to grow up and you grow with them. ”

I covered Congress, and everyone always wanted me to be a political reporter. ”

The political hero is not like the sports champion or matinee idol or daring inventor; like the war hero, he is born only of tragedy. ”

People don’t like what’s happened to the big parties. They think they’ve been dragged off to the extremes. They think the quality of leadership is below what a country like the United Kingdom ought to have available. And they want something different. ”

If the price of continuing my political career is to be complicit in a really bad thing then that’s not a price I’m prepared to pay. ”

The public, investors and stakeholders now expect higher standards of tax compliance and more transparency from large businesses about the way they approach taxation. ”

Loose talk about no deal has given credibility to the simplistic slogans of the Brexit party and resulted in millions voting for them. ”

A willingness by politicians to say what they think the public want to hear, and a willingness by large parts of the public to believe what they are told by populist politicians, has led to a deterioration in our public discourse. ”

I don’t like the idea of being chucked out of parliament, chucked out of the party, for basically doing the bleeding obvious: trying to stop an absolutely damaging policy, that a responsible political party should be opposing vigorously." ”