Ashleigh Brilliant Quotes

When you look at our world, the truth is that we're all under the influence of politics.

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

I didn't have any idea what politics was like. I was surprised at how difficult it is to get something done. In the private world, if I have an idea, I just do it.

Policy is driven by more than politics, however. It is equally driven by ideas.

The art of politics is knowing what to do next.

Politicians, no matter who they are, shouldn't be able to manipulate the public on a single issue and then call an election at the height of support - that's a little bit of a manipulation of democracy.

In any country, governance issues are there. Challenges are there, pressures are there. When multi-party coalitions take decisions, sometimes delays will be there. But that is what democracy is: it is beauty or it's challenge.

There is a circus around politics. But if you think it is a game, then you forget what the purpose of politics actually is.

Politics doesn't matter, policy does.

Only when a political system has decided what is good and beautiful, can it take the intermediate step and set the priorities for reaching its goals.

Democracy is not majority rule but rule by public opinion.

Our concepts of ballot-box democracy may need to be modified to produce strong governments capable of making difficult decisions

Politics is about explanations.

Politics is the art of stopping people from minding their own business.

Public opinion shapes public policy dramatically.

Should National Security Issues be decided by a Local Referendum?

A nation can be one or the other, a democracy or an imperialist, but it can't be both. If it sticks to imperialism, it will, like the old Roman Republic, on which so much of our system was modeled, like the old Roman Republic, it will lose its democracy to a domestic dictatorship.

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

American public policy is run on a myth.

What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics.

Good ideas are the backbone of good government.

Elected representatives are so embedded in the basic notion of what constitutes a democratic nation that it has become indistinguishable from any other form of democratic governance.

I am not playing for any lobby. I am playing for national lobby. I will ignore lobby. Anybody has useful suggestion, they can give it to me. The history will speak about it.

Politics is an instrument that can transform society.

It is unfortunate that people believe that in order to democratise something you have to get politicians out of the system.