Quotes About Perspective

What is the role of an academic - no matter what they're teaching - within political debate? It has to be that they make issues more complicated. The role of the academic is to make everything less simple.

Like wealth, or health, political freedom may simply be something that people don't value if they've always had it.

Political history is not the only way to approach historical figures.

I'm very passionate about political issues, but I also think that listening to people who disagree is extremely important, and I try to build that into my teaching, sometimes by co-teaching with rightwing colleagues.

Business leaders should show what our political leaders seem to lack - that is, a common-sense view of the times.

You have to understand that to have a revolution when you are 18 years old is completely different from normal political leaders who were born in a democracy and will die in a democracy and never to have experienced that change. I have seen that change.

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.

You see, to me, it doesn't really matter if an elected official has a D or an R behind her name, or his name. I honestly don't give a damn about who belongs to either political party.

If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they're my terms, and they're not.

Women are focused on getting things done and bring fresh perspectives and innovative approaches to a political system that's crying out for change.

I don't make political work. I don't make work that criticises the state. I make as human work as I can.

I don't believe that we should never not talk to people we don't agree with politically. If you can make that person laugh, it's the first step to getting him to listen to change their mind.

Actually, I consider myself to be pretty politically conservative.

I guess I am politically very naive.

Jake Corman, he and I disagree on issues politically, but Jake Corman is not a bad guy.

One of the things that goes with getting older is that one becomes more conservative - and I emphasise that when I use the word conservative I do not mean politically.

I'd be curious to find out, but I don't think people in the entertainment industry are proportionally more or less serious politically than anyone in the landscaping industry.

I think women do write politically all the time. Margaret Atwood does; Doris Lessing does.

I got into lobbying kind of against my will at first. I frankly didn't want to be a lobbyist, but I realized that in lobbying I could do things politically that were interesting to me and do some what I thought would be good. I'm not sure it all turned out like that, but at least that was some of the initial thinking.

I've never been nostalgic, personally or politically - if the past was so great, how come it's history?

I am political. But not politically active. I'm not my dad. I'll never write polemic, as he did.

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

People are always going to disagree politically, because we all come at the law from a different perspective with different needs.

We have been indoctrinated to see the world through a politically correct lens.