Quotes on Political Will

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

We would like to see the virtual elimination of the transmission of [HIV] from mother to child by 2015. ... We believe it can be achieved with political will.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

The work of an intellectual is not to mould the political will of others; it is, through the analyses that he does in his own field, to re-examine evidence and assumptions, to shake up habitual ways of working and thinking, to dissipate conventional familiarities, to re-evaluate rules and institutions and to participate in the formation of a political will (where he has his role as citizen to play).

The people are learning that you cannot leave decisions only to leaders. Local groups have to create the political will for change, rather than waiting for others to do things for them. That is where positive, and sustainable, change begins.

Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.

The modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism is loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.