Politician Quotes

It's true across the U.K. that those who had least to do with causing the economic crisis are carrying the heaviest burden. That's unacceptable.

If I have learned one thing in life, it is never to take any man's own estimate of himself. He could very well be mistaken.

I've taught fifth-year Christmas leavers last thing on a Friday afternoon. Basically, if you can face that you can face anything.

I've got a very deep and abiding passion about education being far more than buildings and textbooks; it's what children bring into school with them.

I'm pretty proud of having completed a marathon myself, so I can only imagine the pride that real athletes feel when they are picked for the Olympic or the Paralympic Games.

I will not promise what I cannot deliver. And I will never hide the cost of what I propose.

I love hard political debate and I love beating somebody on a political point but what I'm more frustrated by is the politics where you play the man not the politics.

I got a very strong sense from my mother, in particular, that we are all equal in the sight of God.

He didn't work for money. He worked because he loved kids and education.

Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave.

Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want - and their kids pay for it.

Amnesty is a big billboard, a flashing billboard, to the rest of the world that we don't really mean our immigration law.

Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.

We need to be more careful, but more compassionate. We must strike, not deal with terrorists, but to broaden our understanding of the world outside our borders.

We have obligations towards the innocent, the dead, towards the living, towards our children and their children.

We fully support the strikes against terrorist targets, not against the country, not against the culture, not against a religion, but against an enemy of them all.

We Chileans have to be able to understand that in a democracy institutions must function freely and with sovereignty.

This is not the Chile we want to build.

There is no reason to have problems between country and country, between government and government, when there is a separation of powers.

Poverty is the frontier we have to be able to cross.

My obligation as president, and what I promise the country, is that the courts will be able to do their job free of all pressure.

Let's not interfere with justice... Let's let justice speak.

It's important to see how we can advance in healing wounds.

Clearly it is better that, when someone is wanted by the international police, and this person travels, and a country knows about it, that country reports the fact.

You know, when I sit in meetings and things are very tense and people take things extremely seriously and they invest a lot of their ego, I sometimes think to myself, 'Come on, you know, there's life and there's death and there is love.' And all of that ego business is nonsense compared to that.

When my father passed away and then when later on I gave birth, those are sort of ground-breaking experiences that put everything else into perspective.

The financial industry is a service industry. It should serve others before it serves itself.

I'm very much a believer that it's action that matters much more so than, you know, the flurry of political promises and statements and slogans that are used during political campaigns.

I was praised in the U.S. and heavily, brutally criticized in France.

I think more of the little kids from a school in a little village in Niger who get teaching two hours a day, sharing one chair for three of them, and who are very keen to get an education. I have them in my mind all the time. Because I think they need even more help than the people in Athens.