William Alexander Quotes

Politicians are there to try to deal with stuff, but sometimes it's both fortunate and unfortunate that people like us have more... not involvement, but more power in the stuff that we say.

My dad was a city councilman and a county commissioner, so I grew up involved and engaged in the political process.

We want political power in our country for our philosophy of life. This means we've got to get involved more and more in politics.

You don't need to wear a politician's garb to serve public.

I'm looking for a place to be of use and benefit. And every single Democrat in this country better be thinking the exact same way. How can we help the average American worker, you know, right out there, worrying about whether that plant's going to close? Fighting for them, standing up for them. That's what the story is.

Having seen my mom in community volunteer work my whole life and in Congress for 25 years, it is true as she often says that she sees her service as an extension of her role as a mother and a grandmother.

At the moment I am a little bit politician, yes. I think that could be my next step. It is not because I want power, it is because of what I think I could do for the people.

I'm just a very normal person, living in north London, doing my best for my area and to put forward some serious debate on issues in the party.

I am proud to represent people who care so deeply about their communities. Their perseverance and strength only motivates me more as their representative in Congress.

The government must give men and women without power a real say over what happens to them, and the means of engaging in a participative, invigorated and living democracy.

I engage with local politics because it affects people I love. And I engage in national politics because it affects people I love.

Without the political parties and the volunteering work of their members day in, day out, we would have a very different sort of politics and society.

I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by lowering the voting age, where you had young people that were old enough to die in Vietnam but not old enough to vote for their members of Congress that sent them there.

After PepsiCo, I do want to go to Washington. I want to give back.

I used to do some philanthropic work, but with the political platform, I can contribute in a bigger way.

Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.

I would not want to live in a country that would have me as a leader in any sort of political bent.

America somehow thinks that leadership relates to governance, and it certainly does. But society is much bigger than governance, and some of the truly great leadership of our society is outside the governance arena.

On the show, we are not trying to get people to eat their vegetables; we are not trying to get people to become Democrats. We are basically trying to encourage people to get involved with public life so that politics isn't left to the wealthy and privileged.

I acknowledged that I owed my presidency to People Power. I resolved during my presidency that I would in turn empower the people.

In general people feel more relaxed about participating in politics. They aren't frightened as they used to be.

No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.

To find ways of practicing democracy, not ways of orating about it, is our great problem.

A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins and guiding them.

As a girl who was raised on the idea that we should give back to our community as much as possible, I believe that we have more power than we think when it comes to making change.