James Stone Quotes

Political leaders will never take risks unless the people push them to take risks.

And let me say this as a politician I can promise you this, political leaders will never take risks if the people do not push them to take some risks. You must create the change that you want to see.

I personally believe that those who are leaders with political power over the world will be forced some day, sooner or later, to give way to common sense and the will of the people.

We shall never change our political leaders until we change the people who elect them.

You don't choose a party because it's the flavour of the month. I feel I will be able to work under a political system. I feel if people like me don't enter politics to bring change, who will?

There are not many people in politics who ever want to get close to the heat.

Domestic and international law do not look kindly upon the assassination of a ruler, and it is not likely to be an option openly entertained by any diplomatic institutions. But that is at least partly because law and policy are created by political leaders, who rarely warm to ideas that might place them in the line of fire.

Political authorities should lead the way and not lag behind [public opinion].

Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.

It's an embarrassment that we don't have a broad enough consensus among political leaders that true reform should take place.

You are the instruments that God is gonna use to bring about universal change, and that is why Barack has captured the youth. And he has involved young people in a political process that they didn't care anything about. That's a sign. When the Messiah speaks, the youth will hear, and the Messiah is absolutely speaking.

Political leaders, lacking documents that could be kept secret (apart from the occasional exception), lacking media they could control, were of necessity brought into a direct and immediate relationship with their constituents, and therefore under more and direct and immediate control.

Term limits would make Congress bolder, more independent, and less risk-averse.

I am resigning my post in the parliament. I have done this because I think it is the right thing to do.

I'm glad to know that we do have political leaders that believe in God, and that has been true from the days of George Washington.

Change doesn't come from Washington. Change comes to Washington

Sometimes it's more important to change politicians than light bulbs.

We have got to mobilize people and rethink our commitment in terms of what our role is in the political process.

Sooner I'd try to change history than turn political, than try convincing others to write letters or to vote or to march or to do something they didn't already feel like doing.

Putin has had many positive experiences working with Western political leaders whose business interests made them more disposed to deal with Russia.

Anybody who's mad should run for something.

Should the political process not work, there is always the other approach.

It's not like I'm just trying to win and get elected. I'm trying to change the course of history.

I think we've seen at least the beginnings of rather significant social and economic change in the Muslim world, which I think will in due course lead to more political change.

I think we realized the depth of frustration through the current political process. So we said, "OK, we know there's a serious problem here, we know we need to work on it," and now it's "Oh, we need to work on it a lot faster."