Quotes about "Politics & Government"

I will always remember and we must all remember that Democrats are our political rivals, not our enemies, and they deserve our respect. ”

It's time to put back on the agenda the importance of public ownership and public good, the value of working together collaboratively, not in competition. ”

If you have a society where a large section believe they are not part of the political discourse, that is a situation for trouble. ”

The BBC is very aware of its role in shaping people's consciousness… it's manipulative and deeply political. ”

If all political parties are committed to the role of the free market, the politicians act as, I don't know, as traffic policemen; they stand outside the ring and let the real decisions be slugged out by entrepreneurs. That doesn't seem to me a proper democracy. ”

I wasn't from a political family. Nobody talked politics. ”

I think I have gone through my entire public career never telling a lie. I have made mistakes but I never knowingly lied. ”

The civil service are risk averse. ”

You lose power in Britain and you are just Joe Public again. ”

I think democracy's undermined when those who own newspapers fill them with trivia rather than real issues. ”