Hisham Matar Quotes

Together we are building a new Mexico.

We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will.

If the political will is there, we can solve anything.

When you look at the times in history when change was brought about, there were two factors: crisis and leadership.

It's so much easier to throw rocks than it is to govern.

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

Politics was put in front of me. I do politics because it's the vehicle for change and because I happen to be good at it... I had this sort of calm fearlessness, that some would call foolishness.

Bipartisanship is nice, but it cannot be a substitute for action, not having it cannot prevent us from going forward.

Writing tends to be very deliberate. A novelist could probably run a military campaign with some success. They could certainly run a country.

Many people remember that spirit that President Kennedy summoned forth. Many people look to me as somebody who embodies that sense of possibility.

As an American people, what is greatest about our history are the many times we have led this world away from hate, towards hope.

Let the Dean and Canons lay their heads together and the thing will be done.

Now, when an American has an idea, he directly seeks a second American to share it. If there be three, they elect a president and two secretaries. Given four, they name a keeper of records, and the office is ready for work; five, they convene a general meeting, and the club is fully constituted.

A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision; but believe me, after six months' experience, he wants first, second, third and all the time - patience.

We are here to make another world.

Security isn't what I hunger for. I hunger for change. I hunger for connection.

In an election, one needs both hope and audacity.

To craftsmanship we shall add statesmanship in the capitol of peace.

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

It's good to have a leader, otherwise we argue too much.

Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning.

We stand on the watershed dividing the past from the future. Let us bury the past in so far as it is dead and forget all bitterness and recrimination. Let there be moderation in speech and writing.... There has been violence—shameful, degrading and revolting violence—in various parts of the country. This must end. We are determined to end it. We must make it clear that political ends ae not to be achieved by methods of violence now or in the future.

Settle all things, both great and small, by consultation. Without prior consultation, take no important step.

While one has to work from the roots upwards to build a solid organization, at the start one has no choice but to work from the top downwards, since until individuals had learnt to think for themselves, masses could be manipulated.

New laws are written, and new men are made.