Yair Lapid Quotes

Politics is about explanations.

The job of the politician isn’t to tell you what you want to hear, but to tell you what needs to be done.

Politicians can’t just point to problems. They need to propose solutions.

Leadership is important in politics.

My view is that politics should be on the basis of issues.

Politics is the art of realizing what there is to realize.

Good ideas are the backbone of good government.

Politicians can't manage. All they can do is talk.

I love politics.

The purpose of a politician is to be a leader. A politician has to lead. Otherwise he's just a follower.

I think the best campaigns are campaigns of ideas and substance.

We've got to trust the politicians with these decisions.

In any country, governance issues are there. Challenges are there, pressures are there. When multi-party coalitions take decisions, sometimes delays will be there. But that is what democracy is: it is beauty or it's challenge.

Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.

Politics is not an exact science.

We in the Labour party know better than most that opposition is the easy part. What's more difficult is governing and setting out an agenda for government.

If you [as a Presidential candidate] identify a problem, you are going to be expected to have a solution.

Every day they [politicians] must weigh in on things of which they have little or no reliable knowledge or about which they just don't care.

When politicians try to govern by raising a wet finger to the wind or on the basis of public opinion polling, the public gets to think that all leaders are interchangeable.

Our expectations of our leaders are too high—in what they can do to effect our day-to-day lives.

In politics there are no bad questions; there are only bad answers.

Politics begins when you have two people in a room or when you have one person looking in a mirror.

To govern is to chose.

Democracy requires that those who bear the consequences of decisions have enough knowledge to hold the decision-makers accountable.

[Campaign] Promises forecast governance.