Quotes about "Politics & Government"

Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done. ”

For future politics, I don't know what it holds, but if there's a possibility that the people want me to do another political office, again, maybe I'll do it. ”

Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull. ”

Joe and I are still very aware of the fact that we live in a country where he criticised the government and lived another day. That trumps all. To paraphrase Churchill, democracy is the worst form of government apart from all the other forms of government. You constantly have to fight for it; you have to keep your government honest. ”

We need the best and the brightest to go into public service. ”

I come from a family in which public service was something to aspire to. ”

If Russia did interfere in our election - and, by most accounts, they did - then it is imperative for the health of our democracy to have a thorough and unbiased investigation into the matter. ”

How lucky are we to have Naomi Watts and Sean Penn playing us? We've seen the final cut now a couple times, and the scenes with the marriage fraying at the edges are still very difficult to watch. However, our hope was that no matter your political persuasion, you're taken with the idea that it's important to hold power in check. ”

When you work for the C.I.A. or as a diplomat, or serve in the military, you're not serving as a Democrat or a Republican; you serve as an American, whatever your personal moral compass or political views might be. So that would describe me. ”

Our democracy... is only as good as the American people demand it should be. ”