It is said that every people has the Government it deserves. It is more to the point that every Government has the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
In our democracy, political parties have to raise funds to campaign and put their policies to the electorate, and as a proud… — David Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Turville Copy Share Image
If we don't have an informed electorate we don't have a democracy. So I don't care how people get the information, as… — Jim Lehrer Copy Share Image
As social values shifted through the '80s and '90s, as modern conservatism rose to power, and as the electorate became a good… — Ted Nordhaus Copy Share Image
And if you're getting a poll coming out month after month saying something and then all of a sudden does an enormous… — Jim Bolger Copy Share Image
“all the people have a right to vote, and no single man ever controls the destiny of any nation, either by divine… — James Clavell Copy Share Image
The Tea Party movement itself is maybe 15, 20 percent of the electorate. It's relatively affluent, white, nativist. You know, it has… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There are Americans will find it difficult to believe that the Prime Minister can simply impose candidates on ridings, and can so… — Stockwell Day Copy Share Image
The American electorate are getting disgusted with weaklings who blow where the wind takes them while frittering away our precious lifeblood and… — Cindy Sheehan Copy Share Image
We're at the end of an era of failed leadership. We have been led by a divider [Barack Obama] who has sliced… — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
It seems to be the case that for the people who actually are all in with Donald Trump - which is who… — James Fallows Copy Share Image
It's going to have to come to a point where politicians in their own political self-interest think it's safe and advantageous to… — Rick Steves Copy Share Image
Lord Rothschild had access to all manner of leaders and experts. He was responsible only to the Prime Minister and answerable to… — Derek Wilson Copy Share Image
Remember, the political idea being expressed a year ago was that because the GOP interpreted its 1994 mandate as a call to… — Jude Wanniski Copy Share Image
The media has brainwashed the electorate to expect the government to do something. The best economic policy of any government is to… — Marc Faber Copy Share Image
The Founders recognized that Government is quite literally a necessary evil, that there must be opposition, between its various branches, and between… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
The ultimate check against government tyranny is an informed electorate who will elect people who believe in limited government. I don't want… — Lindsey Graham Copy Share Image
I know very well that the political classes have spread fear among the electorate: Without the euro, the sun will cease shining,… — Marine Le Pen Copy Share Image
I must be absolutely clear about this. Britain cannot accept the present situation on the budget. It is demonstrably unjust. It is… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Whether politicians are dealing with complex policy problems or trying to communicate with the electorate, it makes sense to establish a clear,… — Anthony Albanese Copy Share Image
In general, I think man-on-the- street ads and endorsement spots are having less and less effect on people. The electorate's getting very… — Roger Ailes Copy Share Image
Political activists of all stripes are usually a wacky bunch, and never more so than in a system like Britain's, where power… — Will Self Copy Share Image
I think the Democratic electorate is similarly very energized. In both cycles we have new folks coming into the system who had… — Leah D. Daughtry Copy Share Image
I understand Twitter has become popular among politicians. This technology allows them to stay in perpetual contact with their constituents. The electorate… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I think the American electorate should work a little harder at getting informed. That includes hearing, truly listening, to what the other… — Jeff Daniels Copy Share Image
Unsurprisingly, the poll-takers don't talk a lot in public about the ignorance of the electorate on political and public policy matters. And… — Jack Germond Copy Share Image
The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
Conservatives believe in smaller government and in the power of the electorate. So I think that we're less likely to try to… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
It's the ideology, stupid. Unless the long-term decline of moderates and rise of conservatives is reversed during the next two years, the… — William Galston Copy Share Image
Prime Minister, I see you've already mastered the essential craft of the European politician, namely, the ability to say one thing in… — Daniel Hannan Copy Share Image
We [women] are the majority of the population, majority of the electorate, majority of the workforce... and yet we're still doing majority… — Ai-jen Poo Copy Share Image
The American system is a beautiful and durable thing, but flawed. I would like to think that this decadence is not sustainable,… — Mark Leibovich Copy Share Image
The country is only as strong as its journalism - that's the way democracies work. The higher the quality of the information,… — Scott Pelley Copy Share Image
The reactionary percentage of the electorate in these United States has been relatively constant since McCarthy's day; I'd estimate it as hovering… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
Very obviously, the electorate as a mass has not imbibed the philosophy of 'think national, act local' or even 'think big and… — N. Bhaskara Rao Copy Share Image
It's hard to beat something with nothing. Republicans across the country are feeling the burn from an energized and angry segment of… — Chuck Todd Copy Share Image
No doubt the [presedential] campaigns have reflected some anxiety, anger, and resentment in the nation at large, and we must try to… — John I. Jenkins Copy Share Image
Republican values - strong families, faith, personal responsibility and freedom, among others - are not unique to specific subsets of the electorate.… — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
The judge's authority derives entirely from the fact that he is applying the law and not his personal values. That is why… — Robert Bork Copy Share Image
Europe and the euro zone have no reason, rationally, to push Greece out of the euro. But this is a system in… — Evangelos Venizelos Copy Share Image