Quotes about "Politics & Government"

We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will. ”

The topic of leadership is a touchy one. A lot of leaders fail because they don't have the bravery to touch that nerve or strike that chord. Throughout my years, I haven't had that fear. ”

The area I hope we can learn most from Singapore is in the productivity and efficiency of its public servants. ”

Winning to often is as disastrous as losing too often. Both get the same results, the falling off of the public's enthusiasm. ”

I don't feel political most of the time. Sometimes I'm placed in positions because no one else will go there. ”

Diversity does not preclude political stability. ”

It is important that carbon storage is carefully regulated, that the process is transparent to the public, and that there is a clear accounting of what happened to the CO2. This is particularly true of underground storage, where there is always a small chance that pressurized CO2 could escape. ”

The idea that somewhere in the desert far away you have a CO2 absorber that's removing the CO2 from the air is an attractive one. It's a costly process that many will say is too expensive, but so are fuel cells in cars. It's a matter of political will to move this forward. ”

If each of us is to feel that he or she is valued, this calls for more than public funding. ”

We are fascinated with our own history, and we are fascinated with the Romans because they were millennia ago, and yet they still capture our imagination because they were actually so similar to us. They were very civilized. They had a very similar political system. ”