Quotes About Society

Baseball is what we were, and football is what we have become.

I wish I had some strapping football player husband. It would be such a dream to be 'normal' like that, but I'm just not.

I remember watching a 'Big Brother' contestant saying that she wanted to be a footballer's wife. I thought, 'What is the world coming to?'

If you look at the footballers, you look at our celebrity culture, we seem to be saying, 'This is the way you want to be'. We seem to be a society that celebrates all the wrong people.

In America, I think most actors wish they were rock stars, but I think in England most people wish they were footballers.

The Catholic Church is an enormous footprint in Chicago, doing a lot of good. That aspiration is felt by a lot of people - that the church succeed - because it will be good for society.

If you ask me, 'Are you for or against gay parents?' for example, having kids - it's hard for me to say, 'Yes.'

I like the elitism of the art world. I think art for the people is a terrible idea.

I have strong reasons for being a Democrat. Basically if you want true fairness in society, you want to give a voice in the corridors of power for the people who otherwise would not have it, I believe that will come from the Democratic Party.

Sometimes we don't realize that the government is for the people by the people.

Populism, literally, means speaking for 'the people.' In practice it means demagoguery.

How does a woman in authority convey that authority? Is it possible for a woman to rule without sounding shrill? Is it possible for a woman to manage without manipulating? All of these things seem to me to be very much at the fore today, and were no less the case 2,000 years ago.

When you talk about domestic violence, it's not just athletes that are involved in it. Our society has really done a poor job of addressing it. And it needs to come to the forefront.

People are forgetting how crazy President 43 was.

We live in a cerebral society, in which we have forgotten how fascinating strength is.

Leftism in all its forms must be halted and turned back resoundingly.

Our public culture is one in which only the young and the beautiful will succeed. If you're forty, you're finished.

University should foster imagination and creativity, enriching society in the process.

If you are conscious and really want change in this world, and you don't vote, then what was all the fighting for? All the things our parents and our parents' parents fought for?

Satire can always be found everywhere. A people without love for satire is a dead people.

For many centuries Chinese society has been free of class distinctions such as are found even in advanced democracies.

The foundation of collectivism is simple: There should be no important economic differences among people. No one should be too rich.

The law is the foundation of our society.

As Americans, I think we really believe that with the meritocracy that exists in our country, the equality of opportunity is so important to the foundation of our culture and our society.