Brendan Gill Quotes

Elections are about the future.

Wars come and go; politics endure.

I do think that campaigns are about electing somebody, but they're also about a discussion of the future of our country.

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

You're presuming too much by using the word legacy - presuming that someone is going to care.

I have a lot of hope for the Constituent Assembly.

Elections are fundamentally about the future and not about the past.

Whatever changes a common man wants to bring in the country, he can bring it through the process of voting.

Presidential elections always turn on personalities, they turn on how campaigns are run, they turn on natural desires for change.

War is merely a continuation of politics.

No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the least difference to the amenity of the world.

Elections have consequences. And I fundamentally believe - this is my personal opinion, I know it's a slightly partisan thing to say - to really do what we think needs to be done, we're going to have to win some elections.

When all is said and done, and statesmen discuss the future of the world, the fact remains that people fight these wars.

Take it from me: Elections matter.

Political elections are a good deal like marriages, there's no accounting for anyone's taste.

Our democracy if self-cleansing. If you don't like it, be a candidate, or support a candidate.

What happens to the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us.

You wanna be remembered for making an impact and changing things.And I guess for the good or for the bad, it don't matter. But I guess you just wanna be remembered when it's all said and done.

The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.

I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal; this was the moment when we ended a war and secured our nation and restored our image as the last, best hope on earth. This was the moment - this was the time - when we came together to remake this great nation so that it may always reflect our very best selves and our highest ideals.

President Obama told the Irish people that America will always stand by them, to which Israel laughed.

Nothing that ever happens is so unimportant that it doesn't change things.

History isn't through with me yet.

I think it's important that we run that tension between the way things are, in terms of the way we're governed, and the way we sort of become complacent.

Democracy's ceremonial, its feast, it's great function, is the election.