Edward Grey Quotes

A politician thinks of the next election; the statesman thinks of the next generation

If individuals have no sufficient reason to believe that a good situation today will have adverse long-term consequences, it must always be rational for them to aim to maximize their short-term good.

Politicians all too often think about the next election. Statesmen think about the next generation.

Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech.

We know that the decisions we reach will have a profound impact on the communities hosting our military installations, and more importantly, on the people who bring those communities to life.

We're so used to thinking in the short term, and the minute you speak in more long-term language then you tend to get dismissed as utopian and so on. We have a real problem here in making long-term thinking respectable

If you donate to a charity and save a few kids, 20 years down the line, there will be more people who exist because of you. In other words, you should consider your actions fully.

Men who think in lifetimes are of little use to statesmanship.

If we continue to approach problems from the perspective of temporary expediency, future generations will face tremendous difficulties.

I have problems with this very extreme form of capitalism where the pendulum has swung so far in one direction, where the focus is completely on the short term, and no one is thinking about the consequences.

I've often heard the complaint from both Democrat and Republican voters alike that they hate the fact that politicians get into office and they - and they're fearful, they're fearful to make tough decisions because they think more about the next election than they do about the next-generation.

The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.

Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves.

I think so many people are reactive... they see things in a short term way they're right up against it.

Educate yourself, take the time to find out what is in a bill and how it will effect everything, and not just how it effects you in the short term, but what the long term consequences of a bill, law or legislations will have an everyone and every community, altimetry effecting you!

The people who control the condition in which we live have no reason to think beyond more than the next five or 10 years.

The long view counts.

There is only one conflict, and that’s between short-term and long-term thinking.

Politics is the art of knowing and leading a multitude ... not where they want to go but where they should go.

If you have short term political problems, you behave in a short term way.

Politicians can’t just point to problems. They need to propose solutions.

Our ethical values point one way, towards intergenerational responsibility, but our political system points another, towards the short-term horizon of the next election. We should consider introducing agents who can vote in a far-seeing and impartial way.

One of the hardest things in politics is getting a democracy to deal with something now where the payoff is long term or the price of inaction is decades away.

Public men are all amenable to the tribunal of the press in a free state. The greater, indeed, their trust, the more respectable are they.

I think long-term, not short-term.