Political Attention Quotes

I know a moderate, more centered candidate like myself doesn't get as much attention as people who tend to say more extreme things.

Of course the Liberal Democrats are going to say things to try and get attention - but I don't think the country is paying much attention.

I don't know how much God has to do to get the attention of the politicians. We've had an earthquake; we've had a hurricane. He said, 'Are you going to start listening to me here?' Listen to the American people because the American people are roaring right now. They know government is on a morbid obesity diet and we've got to rein in the spending.

I think we have to pay attention to the Arab masses not just in the Gulf States, but also in the hinterlands.

If you are a representative, and poor people don’t vote, you’re not going to pay particular attention to the needs of the poor.

The average congressman has a time and attention span of about 2 minutes.

The lack of political attention to candidates and issues, history has shown us, is a sure-fire way to end up left out of the policy debates altogether. We need to continue to educate our elected officials and candidates for office on who we are, what we need and why they should stand in solidarity with us.

One of the phenomenons of American political life is that it all stops one day. One day, you've got 200 reporters and cameras, and everybody is hanging on you. And three days later, you're alone. And it's quite a transition.

The media, the polls and our legislatures fortunately have short attention spans.

When politicians and politically minded people pay too much attention to literature, it is a bad sign - a bad sign mostly for literature. But it is also a bad sign when they don't want to hear the word mentioned.

American voters have to pay closer attention to politics if they want to avoid four years of whining about the outcome.

We've seen a shift where people were often initially reluctant to call things terrorism until they knew for sure. And now they start out assuming it's terrorism and then work backwards and say it may or may not have been terrorism. And it does matter tremendously because of the resources involved. If it's a crime that's seen as a disturbed individual, then local police will handle it. If it's a crime that's seen as someone who might be linked to an international terrorist group, you get the vast federal U.S. national security bureaucracy as well as tremendous political attention.

Early on, even before he was the front-runner, TV news was giving Trump far more attention than other candidates and far more than he deserved.

High-profile industry disruptions such as steel or car plant closures attract much media and political attention.

People ask, 'Is the science going to run ahead of the ethics?' I don't think that's always the problem. I think it's that the science runs ahead of the politics. Bioethics can alert people to something coming down the road, but it doesn't mean policy and politicians are going to pay attention. They tend to respond when there's an immediate crisis. The job of the ethicist, in some ways, is to warn or be prophetic. You can yell loudly, but you can't necessarily get everybody to leave the cinema, so to speak.