John Sununu Quotes

A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.

Government should steer, not row.

The American people deserve long-term, forward-thinking policies.

Washington doesn't have just a spending problem, or just an entitlement problem, or just a taxing problem. We have a leadership problem. Fix that, and the first three problems are solved.

It's critical to show that we can meet our commitment to students with disabilities without raising taxes and without increasing the deficit. In the past, there's been strong support for full funding and I'm still hearing that from many of my colleagues.

Whether it was his ability to turn around the Massachusetts economy or turn around businesses in the private sector, Mitt Romney has demonstrated the leadership that we need in the White House to get the country on the right track.

We can’t just run the government on political rhetoric and ideology.

Millennials, minorities, women - until we can connect with those populations, we're going to have some difficulty electorally.

I would not hesitate to vote for a white person as president if I thought he was the best person for the job.

As a legislator, I was elected to make the tough decisions and produce solutions to the problems facing our country.

House Republican women are trailblazers in their own right, and we are focused on a bold, forward-looking agenda to restore a confident America, where every individual and family feels secure in their lives and in their futures.

It's extremely important that we elect people that look like the population they serve.

I am proud to be the first Hindu American to have been elected to Congress and now the first Hindu American to run for president.

If you have a president who is really trusted, then you can move and advance those policies that actually make the American dream available to everyone.

America seems much more diverse and has more exciting casting - they really take risks.

Naming something, putting it on record, in a lyric, feels like affirming people. Ideally, that's what politicians should want to do: to put laws or policies in place that speak to people's experiences, to make them feel heard.

My executive board, my management, my friends, are so ethnically diverse.

The people need someone who's closer to them and the American people need someone who will be their change agent and fight for the issues that are important to them.

My mother knows struggle and has taught me how to lead with compassion, the compassion that should be required for every representative on every level of government.

I think it's important that we have different perspectives. We need more diversity in Congress.

If you're a set of guys looking to start a company, think about women you could team up with - they will see things differently and solve problems you didn't even realize you had.

It's important that people see themselves mirrored in government.

I am running to be the 50th mayor of Baltimore in order to usher our city into an era where the government is accountable to its people and is aggressively innovative in how it identifies and solves its problems.

I'm very much a team-oriented person. I love to have diverse viewpoints because I think we make better decisions.

I'd rather see a woman elected...They understand they can't spend more money than the old man brings home.