Steve Bullock Quotes

You have to spend your political capital on great causes for your country.

Politics and government are certainly among the most important of practical human interests.

To govern is to chose.

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

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

So much of politics is about the daily grind of political business: the people to see, the myriad different facets of government, the remorseless agenda of this part of the media or that.

Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.

I love politics.

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

Politics is the science of who gets what, when, and why.

I'm not a policy wonk, and I don't dream of being a political operative.

As attorney general, I've had some connection with just about every important public issue in the last eight years in Kentucky. All of the important public issues of the day have, at some point.

Forget the consultants, the pundits and the pollsters; good policy is good politics.

Politics doesn't matter, policy does.

Good policy makes good politics and what I've done has been good politics.

Exploitation and government are two inseparable expressions of what is called politics.

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.

In matters relating to business, finance, industrial and labor conditions, health and the public welfare, great leeway is now granted the legislature, for there is no guarantee in the Constitution that the status quo will be preserved against regulation by government.

What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government shall do everything and the idea that government shall do nothing.

Policy making is not as easy as slurping down cabbage soup.

Congress, rather than administrative agencies should fashion any policy that is not only of great economic importance but also one that has divided the faiths and loyalties of classes of people.

Politics is about explanations.

The issue is not that morals be applied to public policy, it's that conservatives bring public policy to spheres of our lives where it should not enter.

Thousands of interests that have known no Federal regulation and control will be welded to the Government hereafter, and can only grow and develop under the hands of Congress and the President.

I did not love politics. As a matter of fact, I hated politics. I loved governing which is … a different thing.