Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Politicians - Page 2

My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it.

It is time for us to make a real commitment to our rural communities by expanding broadband, by supporting our farmers, by building affordable housing and taking on rural poverty. That's how we leave no one behind.

Some people think that you have to be the loudest voice in the room to make a difference. That is just not true. Often, the best thing we can do is turn down the volume. When the sound is quieter, you can actually hear what someone else is saying. And that can make a world of difference.

Police officers put the badge on every morning, not knowing for sure if they'll come home at night to take it off.

Political leaders can help change the psychological climate which affects the quality of relationships among people.

The dream of Europe is a region of freedom and peace, of security, law, democracy, tolerance and mutual respect. If you look into the faces of the refugees you will see this dream. These are people who are fleeing from war, hate, violence and unjust systems.

If career politicians had the solutions, we wouldn't be in the mess that we are.

Quality of life actually begins at home - it's in your street, around your community.

Global warming is a real threat to our communities, to everybody, to everything.

You know, the purpose of reconciliation is to avoid the filibuster. The filibuster is an effort to talk something to death.

An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providing alternative opportunities to reward the skills of children who learn differently.

How arrogant - how very far from humility - would be the self-satisfied, smug assurance that God, a tidy-up-after-us God will come and clean up our mess? Hope for a nanny God, who will with a miracle grant us amnesty from our folly - that's not aligned with either history or the text of the Bible.

Climate change is not just about carbon dioxide levels and melting polar ice caps. It is about our public health and protecting our Earth for future generations.

The sooner we get started with alternative energy sources and recognize that fossil fuels makes us less secure as a nation, and more dangerous as a planet, the better off we'll be.

We decide on something, leave it lying around, and wait and see what happens. If no one kicks up a fuss, because most people don't understand what has been decided, we continue step by step until there is no turning back.

I think NATO is a Cold War product. I think NATO historically should have shut up shop in 1990 along with the Warsaw Pact; unfortunately, it didn't.

The best way to do ourselves good is to be doing good to others; the best way to gather is to scatter.

I don't think there should be more gun control. I think there should be more education.

Having hit a wall, the next logical step is not to bang our heads against it.

I think drones are a good tool to go after high-valued targets.

If voting changed anything, they'd abolish it.

I've waffled before. I'll waffle again.

Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyond politics - one people, one land, one truth, the end of difference. Since genocide is a form of political utopia, it remains an enduring temptation in any multiethnic and multicultural society in crisis.

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

Everyone has a part to play. We have the power. You can do it.

It's good to trust others but, not to do so is much better.

Feeding the world will be one of the greatest challenges of the 21st century. It will be impossible without using scientific advancements and biotechnology.

The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.

I have deep sympathy with the hundreds of my constituents who fear that legislation for same-sex marriage will profoundly encroach - although this may be unintended - on their right to live according to their faith.

Ignorance is a matter of laziness, indifference, and apathy.

Legal aid is central to righting wrongs and rectifying injustice.

Candidate Obama was either exceptionally naive or willfully disingenuous when he vowed to change the way Washington works. The very promise of Hope and Change was rooted in uprooting the Washington modus operandi. But instead of rejecting it, he embraced it all - the secrecy, the closed doors, the political favors, the near-criminal negligence.

A country without engineering skill and knowledge will never become a developed country.

In local government, it's very clear to your customers - your citizens - whether or not you're delivering. Either that pothole gets filled in, or it doesn't. The results are very much on display, and that creates a very healthy pressure to innovate.

Without health insurance, getting sick or injured could mean going bankrupt, going without needed care, or even dying needlessly.

I'm antisocial - there's no question about it.

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

Nobody ever built a statue to a committee.

Sexism is alive and well in politics, as it is in all industries.

The way you deal with automation is by upgrading people's skills so they can get the jobs of the future.

Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.

My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.

Sympathy is important, but it rings hollow if not followed by action.

As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.

I believe Britishness is defined not on ethnic and exclusive grounds but through shared values; our history of tolerance, openness and internationalism; and our commitment to democracy and liberty, to civic duty and the public space.

You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.

My philosophy comes from a worldview that looks at the world as one. It's a holistic view that sees the world as interconnected and interdependent and integrated in so many different ways, which informs my politics.

Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get.

Values are more important than money.

In this dangerous world that we live in, where hatred and violence and natural disasters sometimes collide to almost overwhelm us, we each can help in some way.

My parents were active in the anti-war movement in the 1960s, so I grew up with a tradition of civic activism around our dinner table and going to different marches for different causes.

It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.

Once you got a solar panel on a roof, energy is free. Once we convert our entire electricity grid to green and renewable energy, cost of living goes down.

Avoiding offense means that we don't accept each other as equals.

Long live sausage! Long live salami! Long live pork, coppa, and pancetta!

I believe we need to attract a new generation of the best and brightest to public service and I believe that government can be a source of inspiration, not degradation.

Life isn't black or white, it's all sorts of shades of grey.

In the end, the American dream is not a sprint, or even a marathon, but a relay. Our families don't always cross the finish line in the span of one generation. But each generation passes on to the next the fruits of their labor.

Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you'll never sit. It may not happen fully till after I'm gone. But I know that the steps we're taking are the right steps.

There's nothing more important than our good health - that's our principal capital asset.