Bill Scott Quotes

I've got three little kids at home, and I'm trying to save this country from itself. I'm not here to play political power games, and I've had enough of people playing political power games, and this has just gone on too long.

Almost every special interest lobby was organized to prevent reform.

Politics is an instrument that can transform society.

If we give up on politics, we're done for. Powerlessness is a self-fulfilling prophesy.

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?

Political work is the life-blood of all economic work.

I do not think that politics has much to do with celebrity.

You can’t win if you don’t play. The people who get involved in politics are more likely to get their way.

Politics organizes our lives. We can't disregard it. Politics has lot of muck, lot of dirt. But that doesn't mean you have to be away from it. It's ubiquitous.

I'm not a lobbyist.

I have no political aspiration.

There's no point in getting into politics at all unless you plan to lash things around.

Sitting out of politics isn't really an option if you don't want things to slide.

Politics has become unbelievably and unfortunately way too much about how much money is involved rather than what kind of ideas are involved.

Washington is dominated by big money.

The appalling reality in American politics today is that, when ideology and money mix, truth is a mere inconvenience.

I think I can regard myself as a political decision-maker.

The challenge in working in politics, particularly if you're working for a political party, is that everyone's a messenger.

I do identify with St. Patrick, not just in name. He drove the snakes out of Ireland. I intend to drive the snakes out of the State House.

In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution.

Just by making a decision to stay out of politics, you are making the decision to allow others to shape politics and exert power over you. And if you are alienated from the current political system, then just by staying out of it, if you do nothing to change it, you simply entrench it.

People like Elizabeth Dole have given too much power to the special interests.

Only I can turn this country around.

Young people have so much more power than they tend to think to be able to affect politics. And if people will organize and get involved and go out and knock on doors and hand out leaflets and make a change, then they can determine the future.

I hate politics. I like to write about it, but to get involved in it, to try and make a lot of ignorant people do what you want them to do, waste of time. Go and write a book. It's more important and it'll last longer.