Dominic Grieve Quotes

I think if more members of Congress would talk about what they see and what they want to do and what they want to accomplish, rather than talking about their opponent, we would begin to shape and reshape American public opinion on what the political world looks like.

Every day, I come home with a spring in my step. We've got to work together to stop the Obama agenda and take this country back.

I think that in the eyes of the nation we both can and will oppose the whole aristocratic party and when the time comes, we shall do it openly … and eventually bring the whole affair into the open.

I'm going to Congress to break down the doors of power.

You don't choose a party because it's the flavour of the month. I feel I will be able to work under a political system. I feel if people like me don't enter politics to bring change, who will?

Beloved friends and comrades... the national Libertarian Party is dead.

I spent 10 years fighting for reform in Cook County, and I didn't change my DNA when I got to Washington.

Why shouldn't a child look to want to be a political figure, to change our nation, to lead us the right directions?

There are two kinds of politicians, those who talk and promise and those who listen and do.

In public life, a man whose political principles have any decided character and who has energy enough to give them effect must always expect to encounter political hostility from those of adverse principles.

...the citizen who thinks he sees that the commonwealth's political clothes are worn out, and yet holds his peace and does not agitate for a new suit, is disloyal; he is a traitor

To reform Congress, you have to get Congress to play along.

In the democracy we live in today, it takes crisis to get the politics moving.

I'm sure that President Trump will do plenty of things that people don't like, plenty of things people do like, and the people who don't like it, at that point, certainly take advantage of your rights and protest it - and try to seek change or do whatever you want.

I really do feel like I'm doing what the people that elected me in the first place wanted me to do. I'm not doing it in the same fashion they thought, or that I thought, when I ran for office in 2010. But I will be doing what they wanted me to do, and that is to try to fix Washington.

I rallied against Clinton when he was in office. I didn't vote for him in '96. I didn't vote for Gore in 2000.

You should not want to be a politician because you want to be president. You should be a politician because you want to fix the world or represent a movement.

I'm not giving up politics entirely - I'm just giving up leadership of a political party.

I had quit the Congress to form the Progressive Democratic Front in 1978.

I want Albertans to know they will have a champion in Erin O'Toole.

I didn't get into politics to play a character on TV.

No matter where we go in the state, I hear from Mainers that they are ready for someone to stand up for them in Washington.

I started thinking about getting into politics when David Cameron became leader.

Part of the reason why I wanted to be involved in politics was to create and be a part of policy changes.

Politics is too big a game to feel the absence of a Kamal Haasan.