Political Process Quotes

I mean, the people who run Guantanamo, the military, pretty much dismiss complaints by the detainees because they say that they're all created as part of a political process to sort of fake complaints and get public support.

If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few

Don't make government work like a business... it's inherently inefficient.

Politics is the practical exercise of the art of self-government, and somebody must attend to it if we are to have self-government; somebody must study it, and learn the art, and exercise patience and sympathy and skill to bring the multitude of opinions and wishes of self-governing people into such order that some prevailing opinion may be expressed and peaceably accepted. Otherwise, confusion will result either in dictatorship or anarchy. The principal ground of reproach against any American citizen should be that he is not a politician. Everyone ought to be, as Lincoln was.

A democrat need not believe that the majority will always reach a wise decision. He should however believe in the necessity of accepting the decision of the majority, be it wise or unwise, until such a time that the majority reaches another decision.

I think politics are a part of life, so I have no resistance to it, but it's not something I set out to do.

Democracy is usually seen as a pacifying force that “draws the teeth” from conflict.

If we didn't have the Electoral College there would have been no George W. Bush presidency. Algore would have been elected. The Democrats have not gotten over that, and they never will get over the recount, the aftermath of that election in 2000. They are still animated by it today. It is a significant portion of the rage and anger they carry around with them every day, so they want to get rid of it.

The minute you're working with the government, you're dealing with bureaucracy, you're dealing with time lags, you're dealing with rigidity, you're dealing with a slow pace.

I will continue to ask the president and his subordinates to work with Congress rather than against it.

Anybody who asks for democracy to be introduced should respect the results of democracy.

Unpledged delegates exist really to make sure that party leaders and elected officials don't have to be in a position where they are running against grassroots activists.

Any political process has to secure an improvement in the Palestinians' quality of life and education. Attempts to bring about a political arrangement before securing peace to the Israelis and economic improvement for the Palestinians are likely to fail.

Bernie Sanders brought millions of people into the political process.

We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement.

I love presidential campaigns. It is a time when people are feeling what is going on in the heart of our country.

I'm not sitting in judgment on whether or not libertarians can participate in a political process whose very nature they oppose.

Since an early age I was taught to be very politically aware and knew from childhood that the process was something I wanted to contribute towards if I could.

It was a good election, a good campaign, and a good friend won.

Congress is hard to deal with, dealing with, you know, multiple parliaments and commissions and unions and this and that and the other, that's very complicated.

I did not love politics. As a matter of fact, I hated politics. I loved governing which is … a different thing.

I strongly favor shortening the campaign season and putting more primaries and caucuses on the same day, preferably regionally.

Election days were drinking days.

My father loved democracy. He loved the ancient Greeks because they invented democracy, and he shared their contempt for those who refused to participate in the political process.