Quotes about "Politics & Government"

We were united not only by political respect for each other, but also by deep mutual sympathy as people. ”

Political life is like this - elections go back and forth. Representative democracy can only be successful if one sits down and says, 'That's it. I will connect myself,' - as I did - 'connect my existence to a political project.' Then you automatically have in your party a lot of people who say, 'If that fails, so do I'. ”

You didn't just pay lip service to the goal of overcoming the division of Europe and Germany... Rather, you put yourself at the forefront of those who encouraged us on the way to unity. ”

Denmark needs change, Denmark needs to move on and Denmark needs my leadership. ”

A big part of leadership is just being comfortable with the fact that some decisions really are only yours. ”

You don't spread democracy with a barrel of a gun. ”

I respect the office of the presidency, but I never worship at the shrines of our public servants... The Washington press corps has the privilege of asking the president of the United States what he is doing and why. ”

We in the press have a special role since there is no other institution in our society that can hold the President accountable. I do believe that our democracy can endure and prevail only if the American people are informed. ”

You don't spread democracy through the barrel of a gun. ”

The presidency awed me, but presidents do not. Perhaps I have always expected too much of them, but I believe that when they reach the highest office in the land, they should live up to the greatest honor that can come to a person in American political life. Some have stood the test better than others. ”