Quotes About Politics

I have no desire to run for public office.

I didn't intend to run for public office. I didn't really think about it.

I'm intrigued by being in public office.

If I think of all the family members, I was probably the only one who was excited with the possibility of my dad's entering public office.

In Rwanda, which has gone through a devastating civil war and has a per-capita income of $16 per year, half of members of Parliament are women. But in most countries, including the United States, theres a paucity of women in public office.

Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours.

People have completely lost confidence in our public officials in Jefferson City.

Israel does not care about the international public opinion.

Today, parliaments are more important because of the need of legitimacy, of the popular legitimacy, of public opinion legitimacy of politics. Parliaments are, at the end of the day, the only true legitimacy.

Any politician in a democracy has to be mindful of public opinion.

Politicians know that as public opinion learns to assert itself more aggressively, a government that goes against a presidential opinion can find itself on the defensive.

The reason I wrote political satire was because I thought it - politics - was important... that public policy was important. Then I transitioned into books, then into radio.

The world we live in has been and is being increasingly politicised so that our daily experience is more and more a matter of public policy.

The contemporary political scientist believes that he can avoid the necessity of moral judgments and that he can help frame public policy without committing himself to any ethical position.

And if we make the process political, if we start to make it personal, we're actually going to frustrate good public policy, in terms of managing this money.

I was definitely one of those kids who, for whatever reason, followed politics and public policy.

I just don't have the heart for it. I just will not spend any more time focused on political games as opposed to public policy, which is what I entered politics for in the first place, particularly at a time when it is so needed.

As more government functions are privatized, we find political leaders defunding the public school system, shifting government funds to the private, for-profit school industry.

Public school was never in business to produce Thoreau. It is in business to produce a man like Richard Nixon and, even more, a population like the one which could elect him.

The most confident people in Britain are those who went to top public schools and Trotskyists.

When politics is no longer a mission but a profession, politicians become more self-serving than public servants.

Most of all, be honest with yourself and make sure those in political office, our so called public servants, are being honest, holding them accountable for their actions!

It is important that politicians defend their ability to act without fear or favour, and it is in the public interest that they hold ministers and public servants to account.

The illegitimate money made by corrupt public servants and the power that it gives them is then also used to perpetuate them in office. This corrupt money is one of the main factors responsible for the continued reelection of such politicians. They become masters of the people they are supposed to serve.