Quotes About Balance

America is a world leader, but we should not be its policeman or ATM.

All policies should be guided by science, not just whose voice is the loudest.

I see it along our northern border - the importance of security must be balanced with humane enforcement policies that don't bully schoolchildren who are poised to contribute to our society.

I don't want foreign policy developed just by one party and ride roughshod over the other party.

I consider myself neither liberal nor conservative when it comes to foreign policy.

I have a policy that I get to spend as much on myself as I give away.

My heart is in helping people and in the less materialistic side of things, but there's the side of me that's more polished.

Balanced is probably what I am, although that's just a polite way to say that you don't do anything very well.

I always say that you can be polite and nice and still know what you want and still can see your path.

Everything isn't political.

I'm not being cynical, but I have to find work that is allowing me to pay bills and keep our lives going in a way that we're used to and trying not to betray my political beliefs while I'm doing it. Listen, it's a tough thing to do.

If a man aspires for a political career, he can start at 18 and go on and on. This is not true about women, who fall back when marriage and children happen, which are equally important. That is not gender bias.

I think in political life you can only know your position and stay in place, even though people always try to push you to one side.

No change in the balance of political parties can alter the general determination that no class should be excluded from contributing to and sharing responsibility for the state.

There can be no activist judges from any political party.

My political mission is as acute as ever. For me, in addition to kind of looking at the world and trying to engage in my society politically, having the kid around sort of makes me check in with myself. I think you're all busy trying to fix the world, but what about yourself?

I think, politically, I'm pretty left-wing, and I try to be very neutral in my work.

We're so politically correct; we take things so seriously.

I always tell people this: to be a savvy politician or a good head of state and to be charitable are not mutually exclusive things.

The life of a female politician makes it hard to combine personal life and work, but I think it is almost a patriotic duty to have children.

My mum wanted me to be a doctor like my dad, and at 7, I really wanted to be a politician, and I managed in my mind to combine the two.

As an actor, the experience that I have as a politician while sitting in Parliament - that helps me enrich myself as an actor. But I am an actor first.

I married a politician. But I thought it would be tough for my children to have two parents as politicians.

The last thing we want is politicians running newspapers, but so too we don't want newspapers running the government.