I probably got from my mom a passion for public policy and…

We can find common qualities and common values that have made Britain the country it is. Our belief in tolerance and liberty which shines…

— Gordon Brown

Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in…

— Alfred the Great

Nobody wants to buy a $60,000 electric Civic. But people will pay $90,000 for an electric sports car.

— Elon Musk

Civics isn't something where you learned - learn it for a couple weeks in high school; it is who we are. Americans defined themselves…

— Anthony Kennedy

Naive optimism and pervasive pessimism are both to be avoided, therefore. It's not an easy balance to maintain, to be asked to work away…

— Neal A. Maxwell

Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there remains to…

— Valerie Solanas

What must be addressed in the most immediate sense is the threat that the emerging police state in the United States poses not to…

— Henry Giroux

We hope that more assistance will be available to the nations of the region, to include Egypt, on the three pillars that I discussed…

— Colin Powell

I believe that a newspaper is a great civic asset and that ownership is best in the hands of foundations or wealthy families that…

— Eli Broad

The writer’s job is to write with rigor, with commitment, to defend what they believe with all the talent they have. I think that’s…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

Greek philosophers considered sport a religious and civic-in a word, moral-undertaking. Sport, they said, is morally serious because mankind's noblest aim is the loving…

— George Will

... in America ... children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending…

— Mary McCarthy

In her religious role, the Queen is head of the Church of England, but in her civic role she cares for all her subjects,…

— Jonathan Sacks

To Jane Jacob’s three traditional urban values of civic space, human scale and diversity, the current environmental imperative adds two more: conservation and regionalism.

— Peter Calthorpe

There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries.

— Michael Ignatieff