What we all want is public safety. We don't want rhetoric that's framed through ideology.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When we talk about safety and security of the American people, politics falls aside pretty quickly.
There comes a time when what is needed is not just rhetoric, but boots on the ground.
Give the public what they want. What you want is unimportant.
I'm not really a Democrat or a Republican, but I don't like rhetoric.
As the U.S., much of Europe, and the U.K. shift toward the political right, the rhetoric grows more insular, defensive, and protective.
The American people demand results, not rhetoric, especially when it comes to national security issues.
The terrorist seeks to smash the most fundamental liberty of all: the right to lead our everyday lives on the basic assumption of safety.
The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.
Public policy is designed by spin doctors who aim to keep our heads below the water. The public good is not a consideration, and their self-serving agendas prevail over common sense.
The idea that public safety, the safety of the innocent, is an absolute which trumps every other consideration, is tacitly abandoned in the way we live.