Nick Clegg Quotes

In the early period of American History the office sought the man. Today various kinds of people seek the office.

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

I hate raising money. It diverts you from what your real task is: to be a representative. You're diverted into preservation when you really want to spend your time and energy making a better state and a better country - which is the reason you ran in the first place.

Universal suffrage is sound in principle. The radical element is right.

If we don't like what the Republicans do, we need to get in there and change it.

I would say that a wasted vote is voting for anybody you don't believe in. If you believe in the third party, that's the guy you need to voice for. That's how you change things.

The electoral system is not where change starts - it usually starts in communities and from the bottom up - but it is where change can be stopped.

We shall never change our political leaders until we change the people who elect them.

If I was a politician right now I would change just about everything.

I think it's a pity that in many people's minds constitutional reform and PR have come to mean much the same thing.

I long for the day when there are things I feel strongly about politically.

I speak directly to the people, and I know that the people of California want to have better leadership. They want to have great leadership. They want to have somebody that will represent them. And it doesn't matter if you're a Democrat or a Republican, young or old.

It is unquestionably the duty of the industrial classes, by means of the ballot, to speedily take the Government into their own hands, but in doing so to do justice to all.

If the United States really wanted to increase political diversity, it would provide the option for candidates to run with public funds.

The people have grown tired of the monotony of being served for 20, 30—or 40 years by the same men in Parliament…. Let the Irish people replace us, by all means, by other, and I hope, better men, if they so choose.

I hoped that Obama would be a delivery vehicle for change on issues I care about, but I never expect one politician to be the solution to the diverse array of issues I care about.

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

For future politics, I don't know what it holds, but if there's a possibility that the people want me to do another political office, again, maybe I'll do it.

I want to be part of something that can offer British people something to vote for.

I think it's possible for Tennessee to be flipped to a Democratic majority, which would be beneficial to enacting policies that I would like to see, but beyond party allegiance, we have an opportunity to involve ourselves in change that will empower us not just now but in the future.

Instead of wasting time on proposals which are difficult to forge consensus on, such as public nomination and party nomination, it's better to focus the discussion on how to form the nominating committee and the nomination process.

I hope 'Bamboozled' will serve as a roadmap that will assist Republicans in reaching out to women, black and Latinos. I believe once minority groups open their eyes and are not afraid to see truth, they will choose the party of Lincoln.

My big idea is that democracy can only work properly if you have truly representative people at the table.

My stock answer when people ask 'Are you Britain's Barack Obama?' is 'I'm quite happy being Streatham's Chuka Umunna,' and I really mean that.

The more women we elect to public office, the more wholesome the whole process will be, whether it's government, politics, whatever.