Political Will Quotes

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

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

The more we understand what is happening in the world, the more frustrated we often become, for our knowledge leads to feelings of powerlessness. We feel that we are living in a world in which the citizen has become a mere spectator or a forced actor, and that our personal experience is politically useless and our political will a minor illusion.

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

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

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.

First of all, everyone must acknowledge and feel that child slavery still exists in the world, in its ugliest face and form. And this is an evil, which is crime against humanity, which is intolerable, which is unacceptable and which must go. That sense of recognition must be developed first of all. And secondly there is a need of higher amounts of political will. There is a need of higher amount of corporate engagement, and the engagement of the public towards it. So, everybody has a responsibility to save and protect the children on this planet.

Why, of course, the people don't want war.

Laws have to be backed up with resources and political will. And deep-seated cultural codes, religious beliefs and structural biases have to be changed.

An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.

The essential thing is the formation of the political will of the nation: that is the starting point for political action.

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

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

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

We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will.

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

If world leaders decide to [meet the Millennium Development Goals], I think it can be done by 2015...The question is, is there a political will to make this investment?

Globalization could be the answer to many of the world's seemingly intractable problems. But this requires strong democratic foundations based on a political will to ensure equity and justice.

Terror, as the demonstration of the will and strength of the working class, is historically justified, precisely because the proletariat was able thereby to break the political will of the intelligentsia, pacify the professional man of various categories and work, and gradually subordinate them to its own aims within the field of their specialties.

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

The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.

Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We have everything we need except political will, but political will is a renewable resource.

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.

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).