Quotes about "Politics & Government"

There's some kind of dark symbiosis between lunatics and the Postal Service. ”

ALEC is one great organization, I think, for growing future political leaders. ”

When you have traveled the world, won Olympic gold, and gone through a very public court battle against your parents all by the age of seventeen, surprises don't come easy. ”

We have seen too many arbitrary Strasbourg diktats based on the whims of European judges - from prisoner voting to blocking deportation of Abu Qatada - rather than a sober reading of the sensible list of core freedoms in the European Convention itself. ”

Introducing a voting threshold for strike action would save the country billions, unleashing productivity gains from rail infrastructure to administration. ”

Doing stand-up is not normal. People fear public speaking above all other things, and I am no different. ”

No amount of extra civil servants recruited to deliver Brexit will make up for a lack of rational debate or for political judgments distorted by a desire to sound tough in order to appeal to narrow sectional interests. ”

All political parties, if they are to be successful, have to be broad churches. ”

Of course we should harness IT to strengthen public protection and public service delivery. ”

Believing in and practising the principles of the rule of law is, with our liberty and democracy, among the most powerful weapons we have. It is less effective if we blur its clarity and we should do this as sparingly as possible. ”