Politician Quotes

The Bible has done more harm than any other book in the world.

When I left prison, I had to figure out how to embrace my past.

Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.

Our best comes out when we have honest discussions.

I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances.

I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom.

You have to be able to risk your identity for a bigger future than the present you are living.

You have one big mythology in your favor: Everyone believes that you Europeans are impeccable. But I know you are jerks.

That's why we're doing this, to defend our traditions a little. I don't have anything against it (Halloween), but it's not our tradition.

I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.

Hope is the raw material of losers.

But every company of the future is going to be in the business of exquisite care - which means quick turnaround time and convenience. To deliver exquisite care, you need an organization that coordinates well and listens well.

Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.

A feel-good style can be a symptom of unawareness or lack of caring.

When trust improves, the mood improves.

Whenever I am among my fellow Governors, I am struck by how many face the same education improvement issues.

We will attract more people to Kentucky by lowering our income tax rate. In fact, lowering the income tax rate is the single most important thing we can do to create opportunity.

This foundational principle - that human beings derive their rights from God, rather than from the State, or any other source - is what made America different.

State government has too often been used to look out for the insiders and not the citizens. This has insulated poverty from progress, and need from remedy.

My vision for Kentucky is a Commonwealth where there is so much economic opportunity, and our quality of life is so high, that people who are born here can stay here, and people who aren't fortunate enough to be born in Kentucky, can look forward to locating here.

I cannot allow state government to continue to be consumed by this game of political 'gotcha.'

Government cannot do everything, so we need to first decide what government ought to be doing, then figure out what it's capable of doing, and then follow the jobs we choose to completion.

A government of, for and by the people, requires much from the people.

I would like this to be a new day. I would hope now that we can focus on doing the people's business.

Education is our greatest opportunity to give an irrevocable gift to the next generation.

There are some Republicans who say that any time you raise new revenue, you have to have a tax cut to match it. I am not one of those Republicans.

The country is facing a fiscal crisis, and the United States Senate is at the center of the debate about how to bring federal spending under control.

Senator Jon Kyl has given all of the eventual candidates in this race an excellent model of how to best serve Arizona and the country. He's set the bar extremely high, and I'll do my best to meet that standard.

Our government shouldn't tell us where to travel and where not to travel.

Many of the earmark request forms are actually filled out by lobbyists and then just turned in by the member's staff to the appropriations committee.