Activity Quote by Joseph Stiglitz

I participated on debating teams and in student government, and served as senior class president.

— Paul D. Boyer

I had always had a deep interest in social science, history. So even when I was in high school, I was debating, and in…

— James Heckman

I almost became a political journalist, having worked as a reporter at the time of Watergate. The proximity to those events motivated me, when…

— Michael Sandel

I was in the debating society at school, I was the president of the Oxford Union, and then I became an MP in the…

— Gyles Brandreth

At college my three main interests were - in descending order of importance - a steady supply of recreational drugs, a 2-S draft deferment,…

— Garry Trudeau

I was a Political Science major.

— Harry Shearer

The only newspaper in our house when I was growing up was the Daily Mail, and we would never have dreamt of discussing politics…

— Caroline Lucas

When I was in politics, I debated a Nobel Prize-winning economist, climate change activists, governors, senators, congressmen. I debated anybody on an issue I…

— Will Cain

I won a Marshall scholarship to read philosophy at Oxford, and what I most wanted to do was strengthen public intellectual culture - I'd…

— Reid Hoffman

At Harvard College, I discovered political philosophy as a way of life.

— Tom Cotton

I've spoken about politics a lot over the years and my main issue that I championed was just general engagement in politics.

— Georgia Toffolo

Public policy has been a passion of mine. For three decades, I've had some involvement in the political process.

— Nigel S. Wright