David K. Shipler Quotes

Affairs of state tend to drive most presidents toward the center on both foreign and domestic policy, no matter where on the political spectrum they begin, and especially so in the areas of intelligence and law enforcement.

David K. Shipler

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• But when one identifies the Church with a cultural and political bloc, there is the danger of making difficult the Church's contact with all those outside the bloc.

  

  Karl Lehmann
  • Political
  • Church
  • Outside

• Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Business
  • Power
  • Science

• The economy in Ireland has been rampaging ahead for the last 15 years. Barring an international, political or natural catastrophe, things can only get better for the Irish.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Political
  • Better
  • Economy

• We must strictly enforce the Environmental Law, closing down the polluters that fail to meet the standards.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Law
  • Down
  • Environmental

• Would I be happy just practicing law? No. Would I be happy just doing TV and speeches? No. I want to do all of these things and be as active as I can... but my main goal is to have some degree of influence on the public discussion.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Happy
  • Law
  • Influence

• School after Labor Day is now the law of the land in Maryland.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • School
  • Law
  • Day

• One of the defining dynamics of 2008 has been the emerging wave of new, young voters getting involved and storming the gates of the traditional political establishment.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Political
  • Young
  • Wave

• I was on a well-beaten path of actors - what we all call 'the Law and Order route'. I spent two years of auditioning for everything... and then 'The Wire' came up.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Up
  • Law
  • Years

• For future politics, I don't know what it holds, but if there's a possibility that the people want me to do another political office, again, maybe I'll do it.

  

  Vance McAllister
  • People
  • Future
  • Political

• With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue.

  

  Nassau William Senior
  • Political
  • Respect
  • Attention

• The Polish freedom movement of 1968 lost its confrontation with police violence; the Prague Spring was crushed by the armies of five Warsaw Pact members. But in both countries, 1968 gave birth to a new political consciousness.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • Political
  • Freedom
  • Lost

• These people have elevated audacity to symphonic and operatic levels. The Florida Supreme Court relied on new law to resolve the election dispute down there.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • People
  • Law
  • Election

• Great law schools like Northwestern are here to expand the minds of their students, to allow them to achieve their personal goals, to enable them to contribute, to give back in ways that they could not without the education they receive here, and to help them make the greatest country in the world just a little more accessible, a little fairer.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • World
  • Great
  • Country

• Understand, our police officers put their lives on the line for us every single day. They've got a tough job to do to maintain public safety and hold accountable those who break the law.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Job
  • Law
  • Single

• There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided. It was very degrading, very humiliating. And there was a means test for receiving poor relief.

  

  Barbara Castle
  • People
  • Law
  • Very

• Liberals need to take the advice they routinely give to conservatives: that there are consequences to their divisive rhetoric, and that in their attempts to score political points, they are also inciting violence.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Political
  • Violence
  • Advice

• One with the law is a majority.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Law
  • Majority
  • Legal

• Our show is different, because it's not about law and order, it's about psychology, the intent of somebody.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Different
  • Law
  • Psychology

• Without unleashing the power of life-destroying missiles or forcing obedience to a particular law, rainbows dissolve preoccupation with the predictably ordinary and encourage belief in the extra-ordinary. Such belief, such inspiration, provides much more than passive hopefulness.

  

  Aberjhani
  • Power
  • Law
  • Inspiration

• If I was so establishment, I don't think Our Revolution... would actually endorse me.

  

  Jimmy Gomez
  • Revolution

• Poor captive bird! Who, from thy narrow cage, Pourest such music, that it might assuage The rugged hearts of those who prisoned thee, Were they not deaf to all sweet melody.

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Music
  • Sweet
  • Bird

• The first thing I ask when I'm offered a part is, Who's the director? which is something they never understand in Los Angeles.

  

  Swoosie Kurtz
  • Part
  • Director
  • Ask

• I like the idea of subversively communicating with people... so that you make people see things in different ways.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • People
  • Different

• Affairs of state tend to drive most presidents toward the center on both foreign and domestic policy, no matter where on the political spectrum they begin, and especially so in the areas of intelligence and law enforcement.

  

  David K. Shipler
  • Political
  • Law