Political Quotes
- 
	
	About half my work in education is U.S. political reform around school districts and charter schools, and creating more room for entrepreneurial organizations to develop. And about half on technology, which I look at as a global platform.   
- 
	
	The issue of cyber-security, cyber-crime, and cyber-malfeasance has an impact on a whole range of issues, not the least of which is civil liberties, political activity, and so on and so forth.   
- 
	
	Yes has been sleeping in this kind of awful mode that I think is slightly disrespectful to our beautiful fans. It's all ... political is not the right word, but it's all contrary to different people's opinions of what's right and what's wrong. I think that's really a shame.   
- 
	
	I never thought that I could reach such a high political position. But I have always been ready to serve my country.   
- 
	
	I think political correctness has taken over this country.   
- 
	
	But if the 1 percent and the 0.1 percent are respected and allowed to risk their wealth - and new rebels are allowed to rise up and challenge them - America will continue to be the land where the last regularly become the first by serving others.   
- 
	
	The basic gamut of civil and political rights in terms of disappearances, detainees, people who are surrendered, what happened the missing. Any talk about allegations of war crimes. Those are the kind of thing that lead to a great deal of fear and uncertainty.   
- 
	
	Improvising political dialogue is not easy.   
- 
	
	We still think and talk of the basic problems of an industrial society as problems that can be solved by changing the system, that is the superstructure of political organization. Yet the real problems lie within the industrial enterprise. ...our representative institution... a mirror in which we look when we want to see ourselves.   
- 
	
	I love that theatre can be political. You can go watch a play; it sends out messages, and you can go away thinking differently to the way you thought about it before.   
- 
	
	Wellington Webb was one of the most significant mayors of the latter half of the 20th century. His natural political instincts are almost unrivaled.   
- 
	
	Most North Americans know that human-caused global warming is real, even if political leaders don't always reflect or act on that knowledge.   
- 
	
	People rightly want our political leaders - on all sides - to concentrate on minimising the damage to jobs, living standards and our savings from the banking crisis.   
- 
	
	A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.   
- 
	
	The bottom line is that Daesh's defeat requires not just hammering them on the battlefield but, simultaneously, revived political reconciliation with Sunnis.   
- 
	
	Thinking about free speech brought me to media regulation, as Americans access so much of their political and cultural speech through mass media. That led me to work on the FCC's media ownership rules beginning in 2005 to fight media consolidation, working with those at Georgetown's IPR, Media Access Project, Free Press, and others.   
- 
	
	So what if I don't agree with the Democrats? What's to disagree with? They believe everything. And what they don't believe, the Republicans do. Neither of them stands for anything they believe in, anyway.   
- 
	
	A lot of politics plays at the level of myth, and if you understand that, then you feel like you have access to the secret language of politics. People respond to political characters in archetypal ways. A fun game is to think of a politician and ask, "Which god is that? Are they like Aries? Are they like Athena?".   
- 
	
	My record proves that I don't make political or public-service decisions based on what typical folks in Washington do, which is, 'What's going to get me past the next election, or what's best for my career?'   
- 
	
	People who don't vote have no call on political leaders!   
- 
	
	The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.   
- 
	
	I hope that just what I sing about and how I relate to my audience is as much of a political statement as I need to make.   
- 
	
	In Canada you grow up - we're next to the United States. We're watching whatever you're watching. We're following your news. It's obvious that we are inundated with American cultural information and political information. Whereas the opposite is not true.   
- 
	
	The first rule of good theatre is 'Show, don't tell.' It applies to good political action as well.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					