Billy Eichner Quotes

Hollywood likes to boast that it can elevate the national conscience.

Any politician is to a certain degree a mentor. They preach something.

I truly believe that people like myself, who are in a position of entertainers in the limelight, should keep their mouth shut on politics.

I am satisfied that all politicians were meant to be journalists and all journalists meant to be politicians.

… [now football] players want to be politicians and use their fame to lecture other Americans, the parsons of the press corps want to make them moral spokesmen…

Beyonce may be a gifted entertainer, but no one should really care what she thinks about any serious issue confronting our nation.

Even in national crisis, it is important that we continue to stand up for our community and follow where our faith leads us.

Ethics is a fluid term ...It's the standards by which a civilized society lives.

I'm listening to America, not to the pundits.

Injecting new ideas into public debate is the supreme function of the newspaper columnist. Politicians and civil servants absolutely will not take the risk.

When government tries to serve as a parent or teacher or a moral guide, individuals may be tempted to discard their own sense of responsibility, to argue that only government must help people in need. If we've learned anything in the past quarter century, it is that we cannot federalize virtue.

How can we decide matters of public policy when we cannot understand them?

Isn't it interesting that we can see the necessity of teaching ethnic pride and not ethical pride? The Ten Commandments aren't being taught any more than black history. Don't you think that just might have something to do with the way our young people are behaving?

I still believe with Adlai Stevenson that you can win elections by talking sense to the American people.

All people have the duty and the right to participate in public debate.

Citizens are refined, cultivated, and very political. I believe in the legitimacy of their participation.

I don't think morality can be decided on the private level. I think you need public guidance and public support for a moral consensus. The average person has to know instinctively, without thinking too much about it, how he should raise his children.

The newspaper is in all its literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct

How many thousands pronounce boldly on the affairs of the public whom God nor men never qualified for such judgment?

When we speak freely, let us speak plainly, for plain speech is wholesome; especially, plain speech about public affairs and public men.

The Pulpit, the Press, and the Novel—these undisputedly are the great molders of public opinion and public morals to-day.

I think public life for me has a slightly didactic role, OK.

There's a lot to be done; I just see a total moral decay in our society.

I'm not talking about what you hear from 5 per cent of the population on the radio, in the papers. I don't pay attention to it. I travel around the country. I'm happy I have a good relationship with the people.

I've always been interested in the news, but I've always been interested in what's popular. I've always had a little bit of a populist take on things. Which I know is interesting when you talk about Donald Trump.