Politics Quotes - Page 16

A doctor, a teacher and a politician have no caste.

I’m going to be a model of fearlessness. And when people spew fear, I’m going to stand with an invisible shield around me and let their comments zing off my shield, and I will say to myself ‘not in my world!’ because in my world, people do take risks, and people do try to make things better and they never say die!

Relationships are so much like the United States - they only really thrive when faced with an external threat.

People and institutions that refuse to admit error eventually discredit themselves.

If you have not given up as yet, failure is not a relevant social status in your life.

When the time is ripe for certain things, these things appear in different places in the manner of violets coming to light in early spring.

We will restore science to its rightful place and wield technology's wonders to raise health care's quality and lower its cost.

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If after hearing my songs just one human being is inspired to say something nasty to a friend or perhaps to strike a loved one it will all have been worth the while.

a room without boooks like a body without soul

In four months we could actually have an administration that believes in science.

Conservatives, who have presumed that the key to preventing AIDS is abstinence-only education, and liberals, who have focused on distribution of condoms, should both note that the intervention that has tested most cost-effective in Africa is neither... Secular bleeding hearts and religious bleeding hearts will have to forge a common cause.

Once in a while a new government initiates a program to put power to better use, but its success or failure never really proves anything. In science, experiments are designed, checked, altered, repeated- but not in politics... We have no real cumulative knowledge. History tells us nothing. That's the tragedy of a political reformer.

Science has an unfortunate habit of discovering information politicians don't want to hear, largely because it has some bearing on reality.

There are things people don’t understand. And they do what they want. There are rules that are not meant to be broken.

There are seven things that will destroy us:

Wealth without work;
Pleasure without conscience;
Knowledge without character;
Religion without sacrifice;
Politics without principle;
Science without humanity;
Business without ethics.

There are three laws that govern our universe - laws of physics, laws of nature, and spiritual laws. Like the laws of physics and nature, spiritual laws are just as precise as any mathematics equation.

When a child goes missing, do not all the best hunters go looking in the woods, therefore a child did not go missing, it was the best hunter in the woods

Before aligning the body to the future, the mind has to straighten out from the impairment or religion.

In the future system, you will decide how your bodies look and feel, but only til then will you have the choice.