Nick Clegg Quotes

I say Republicans aren't right all the time. Democrats aren't wrong all the time - now, maybe most of the time, but not all the time.

I'm optimistic because I'm pragmatic: Neither of the two sides, the military government nor the Islamic front, is capable of winning. If they continue to fight, they will both bleed to death.

There can be no faith in government if our highest offices are excused from scrutiny - they should be setting the example of transparency.

If you want to be a government in a minority Parliament, you have to work with other people.

A minority government can't govern without support from other parties.

We now have a political process, we've had a period of parties that have been fighting each other quite literally with bombs and bullets, talking to each other, and having sat together in the assembly and sharing government with each other.

It's one thing to earnestly try but fail to bring the two sides together. Though Democrats will deny it, that was the case with George W. Bush.

The Liberal party has always worked with multiple parties in the House to make sure we're being governed in the best interest of Canadians.

I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.

Only the Liberal Democrats have probed the government's failings consistently, thoroughly and effectively.

We in the Labour party know better than most that opposition is the easy part. What's more difficult is governing and setting out an agenda for government.

It would be wrong for us to offer difference from the Conservative Party at the cost of credibility, but equally it would be wrong to offer credibility at the cost of being clear that there remain very fundamental differences.

Politics is not a game for naive thinkers. You may go in as an idealist, but you certainly won't come out as one.

One of the really positive things about minority government is that there is the necessity to broker policy positions. What happens is you get a hybrid of what a single party might do. And I don't think that is a bad thing.

It is a maxim of wise government to deal with men not as they ought to be but as they are.

it does not make any difference whether it were the Republican or Democratic Party. It is the business of the party in power to face the American Nation, stand responsible for the conduct of its administration, and to give the people of this Nation a prosecution in this case that will restore the confidence of the people not in the party in power merely, or any party, but in their Government, in the integrity of their public officials.

England does not love coalitions.

Do not adopt the best system of government, but the one most likely to succeed.

I believe in a balanced government. I don't believe in minimum or maximum. Balance is always the best way.

The Lib-Dems are sidekicks. They were born to be sidekicks and that's what they should concentrate on being.

In politics, you have to compromise from morning to evening. Democracy is the art of compromise.

Fine Gael needs to be Fine Gael and needs to stand its ground. It should not sacrifice its politics for position in government.

We are not going into government with Sinn Fein.

It is a maxim of wise government to treat people not as they should be but as they actually are.

You can never underestimate the ability of the Democrats to wet their finger and hold it in the wind.