Quotes on Political Will

I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.

Reaching a general understanding that sustainability is the ultimate issue will finally bring us face-to-face with the political challenge of forging a sustainable society during the next few decades. It is a challenge we can meet if we have the leadership and the political will to do so.

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.

We know the problems, and we know the solution: sustainable development. The issue is the political will.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. 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."

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.