Bill Nelson Quotes

I want what's best for our country. I'm not sure I can figure that out.

It's very useful when politicians have doubts because there are so many choices to be made in the world.

Everybody makes personal decisions that are right for them and if you're in political life, you're used to having those analyzed.

It is not the Government, the members of Parliament to whom the ultimate decision belongs, it is up to you to go forward sure of your sacred right of free opinion, sure of your patriotism.

Things said by political parties are different from the decisions of the government which are taken to uphold the rule of law. The government takes decisions that are best for the country.

Because the task of a political leader is to do what he believes is better for his country. Sometimes the public opinion is in favor; sometimes the public opinion needs a little bit more time to understand things.

I'm not a left-wing person. I'm just a person interested in the sustainability of my country.

Good or bad, political choices have an impact on the way country’s behave.

I don't want to tell Gov. Brewer what to do; she can do what's best for her state.

I'm going to put the interests of the nation first.

My judgment about what is right for this country will always guide me.

For me politics is an opportunity to serve the country.

Arkansas needs leaders who will stand up to anyone in Washington, from either political party, and do what's right for Arkansas and for our country.

I also believe that everyone needs to think independently and make their own decisions on what makes the most sense.

I don't read polls to decide what I'm going to do.

I have no regrets whatsoever that I have acted in a way to advance my country's interests

We cannot decide for the American people.

This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but to come to the aid of their country.

Good citizenship and defending democracy means living up to the ideals and values that make this country great.

You can drive yourself crazy trying to peer into a person's soul--or you can do the sensible thing: ask not what inner motives drive a politician's policy choices but instead whether those choices are good for the country.

If the States do not have the right to secede, then they have no rights at all.

I am proud of Russia and I am sure that the vast majority of Russian citizens have great love and respect for their Motherland. We have much to be proud of: Russian culture and Russian history. We have every reason to believe in the future of our country. But we have no obsession that Russia must be a super power in the international arena. The only thing we do is protecting our vital interests.

But the Lacedaemonians, who make it their first principle of action to serve their country's interest, know not any thing to be just or unjust by any measure but that.

Surely, if it is the right of the people to "alter or abolish," it is their right to criticize, even severely, policies they believe destructive of the ends for which government has been established. This principle, in the Declaration of Independence, suggests that true patriotism lies in supporting the values the country is supposed to cherish: equality, life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness. When our government compromises, undermines, or attacks those values, it is being unpatriotic.

Anybody who is in a position to serve this country ought to understand the consequences of words.