DeForest Soaries Quotes

It's an embarrassment that we don't have a broad enough consensus among political leaders that true reform should take place. I could count the members of Congress on one hand that took these issues seriously.

If I'm the president, I will call in all the different political opinions to come together and to make one front to the benefit of Mexico.

I'm willing to work with all parties to reform Indonesia.

The principal concern of Mexico’s political elite today is how to build governing majorities and achieve consensus.

Clearly, politics is a team sport. Trump is not so much of a team player.

I think that to the extent that we focus on problems where we can build a moral and a political consensus, then I think that we move the country forward and when we are divided and our politics is focused on dividing, then I think we're less successful, not just from the perspective of the Democratic Party or the Republican Party but from the perspective of the nation as a whole.

In politics there are some candidates who use change to promote their careers, and then there are those like John McCain who use their careers to promote change.

Politics requires the sense of possibility. Dare I say it - the audacity of hope.

After four years of getting the run-around, America needs a turnaround, and the man for the job is Governor Mitt Romney.

We aren't as divided as we think we are. We're not just Republicans sitting in one corner, and Democrats sitting in the other corner.

What I like about Bain Capital is that we have Republicans, we have Democrats, we have independents; we are a diverse firm in terms of political views. But what we do is we sit down and we try to solve the problems.

I speak directly to the people, and I know that the people of California want to have better leadership. They want to have great leadership. They want to have somebody that will represent them. And it doesn't matter if you're a Democrat or a Republican, young or old.

I also know that there have been many times in our history when the proximity of an election has induced exactly the kind of leadership and consensus-building that produce progress in our democracy.

We [the Republican Party] are the change.

Does any of you believe that we can solve our country's problems in five years? That is why we do not have this nonsense of elections.

We don’t have leaders like Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt or Nelson Mandella in politics today. If we are to go forward in the world, new leaders will have to emerge.

I’m going to take Tennessee ideas to Washington and make them work for the country.

I would advise Donald Trump to try to bring and unify this party together.

The American people are ready for solutions, and Donald Trump offers a chance to move in a new direction.

My whole deal is reforming, changing, shaking up Washington. It sure needs it.

I have good friends who are politicians on both sides.

I've been involved in politics for quite some time. I've held positions, and my experiences are very deep, and I think I have the capacity, the courage, and the character to institute the kinds of reforms that are so desperately needed.

Cleaning up the mess in Washington is gonna take a whole lot of Iowa common sense.

I'm focused on bringing real change to Washington because the career politicians have screwed things up so badly.

In the Independent Group, we have the seeds of a new political movement that can reinvent our broken politics and provide a home to people who are politically homeless.