Civics Quote by Al Gore

I survived my childhood by birthing many separate identities to stand in for one another in times of great stress and fear.

— Roseanne Barr

We've got to change the culture of riding the T. It is a civic space for community conversations, but everyone's always really quiet on…

— Michelle Wu

All of us can make changes, but the changes that are most needed are not light bulbs and windows but laws and policies and…

— Al Gore

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

— Mary McCarthy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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