Public Issues Quotes

I do not consider that letters written to public men on matters affecting the public interest and threatening the public welfare are private letters.

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

I believe in active citizenship, for men and women equally, as a simple matter of right and justice. I believe we will have better government in all of our countries when men and women discuss public issues together and make their decisions on the basis of their different areas of experience and their common concern for the welfare of their families and their world.

I don't weigh into politics.

Parishes can help lift up the moral and human dimension of public issues, calling people to informed participation in the political process.

I try not to make political arguments personal. It doesn't help and it switches a lot of people off. The real questions: Will we have peace? Will we have justice? Will we have pensions? Will we have free education? Will we have public services? .... those are the sort of things which interest me. I don't think that having a go at individuals really helps get your point across apart from anything else.

Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.

There is a circus around politics. But if you think it is a game, then you forget what the purpose of politics actually is.

Our platform should take up every one of the issues of the day. It should be so brief that the newspapers would publish it and people read it.

Listen, in the same way that politics and government allow people to engage in large issues, media does the same.

I'm interested in politics, what's going on in the world, how people behave and how your life is often in the hands of other people.

There are ways that we can manipulate the corporate media to talk about the issues that we care about.

Voters will not give you a chance to solve their problems if they think you don’t understand them.

[It's] difficult to engage people in politics when they believe that what really matters is where they personally stand.

If the government and judiciary start working together then who will raise people's issues?

I talk about jobs. I talk about education. I talk about making government work for people. That's really the dinner-table issues that I hear from Michiganders in every part of our state.

I have not come to Kashi to seek votes but to connect with the people and understand their problems.

I have argued in favor of a reformulation of First Amendment law. The overriding goal of the reformulation is to reinvigorate processes of democratic deliberation, by ensuring greater attention to public issues and greater diversity of views.

Politics is not a game. It exists to resolve the largest questions of the society.

There have been two periods in my lifetime when the excitement of government and of public issues drew to Washington many of the bright young people graduating from colleges and law schools. These were essentially the Roosevelt and the Kennedy years.

When I was a kid, politicians wanted to avoid talking about religion if they could. John F. Kennedy couldn't duck the issue, being Catholic and all. So how did he address it? By reminding Americans that religion shouldn't be an issue, that he was concentrating on big things like poverty and hunger and leading the space race.

I will stand up on issues as they arise, making sure that the voices of Georgians are always being heard.

When you travel and when you campaign, people tell you their problems. You see the problems and you become aware of them and you talk about them every day. And so you feel the responsibility for doing something about them.

If I cry, it's about the personal loss of a friend or something like that. But when it comes to politics - no, I don't cry.

I engage with local politics because it affects people I love. And I engage in national politics because it affects people I love.