Quotes about "Politics & Government"

If you believe that health care is a public good to be guaranteed by the state, then a single-payer system is the next best alternative. Unfortunately, it is fiscally unsustainable without rationing. ”

When you start attacking cronyism and people's political interests, it gets nasty. ”

Far from trying to rig the system, I have spent decades opposing cronyism and all political favors, including mandates, subsidies and protective tariffs - even when we benefit from them. ”

Democracy demands trust. It demands that sense of mutual understanding. And - it's a two way street. You've got to give - as much as you take. ”

I think you've got to like people. There are MPs who are either painfully shy or who don't like public speaking or don't socialise very well, and you just think this must be the worst job in the world for them. ”

Soon after the 1997 election, I argued that there was no inverse law of political gravity which said that everything which went down had to come back up. ”

Valuing public servants would boost morale among those on the front line of implementing government policy. ”

Those who use our public services should be able to deal directly with those who manage and deliver them. ”

When it comes to our public services, decentralisation means giving power back to those on the front line - our doctors, nurses, teachers and physiotherapists, and our locally elected officials. ”

Of all the principles which constitute Liberal Democracy, internationalism is the clearest, the most distinctive, and the one with the longest history. ”