Saikat Chakrabarti Quotes

I'm going to Congress to break down the doors of power.

I liked it when we had ugly politicians who droned on about issues.

I think if more members of Congress would talk about what they see and what they want to do and what they want to accomplish, rather than talking about their opponent, we would begin to shape and reshape American public opinion on what the political world looks like.

You don't choose a party because it's the flavour of the month. I feel I will be able to work under a political system. I feel if people like me don't enter politics to bring change, who will?

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.

Politicians are a lot like diapers. They should be changed frequently and for the same reason.

There are two kinds of politicians, those who talk and promise and those who listen and do.

In the public mind, when they think of politicians, sadly they probably tend to think of men in grey suits doing work behind closed doors at Westminster. I want to get away from the idea.

I think politics often seems remote, and anything we can do to show more of the workings - how you make the sausage - is useful.

I think that people are tired. They're tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.

If we can take Harry Reid out, we can take our country back. I'm not here to preach to the choir. I'm here to organize the army.

I think I should be active politically. Because I look upon myself as a politician. That's not a dirty work you know. Some people think that there are something wrong with politicians. Of course, something wrong with some politicians.

We put together a one-sentence petition asking Congress to censure President Clinton and move on to other pressing issues. We sent it to under 100 friends and family, and within a week we had 100,000 people sign the petition.

The Occupy movement needs an organizing principle, and - just as the Tea Party did - it needs some actual measures of success. Choose one candidate whose agenda is squarely within that of the movement and make his or her electoral success a focal point.

I think that politics needs a bit of spicing up.

Look, there ought to be politics in politics.

Sometimes people credit me for the Tea Party. It's actually the other way around.

I have an aim - I have a clear aim in my mind, and the aim is that I do not like what I see in Indian politics; it is something that is inside my heart.

If I was a politician right now I would change just about everything.

I think the record shows that as Speaker, I have taken the lead in cleaning up politics.

Politicians are no different than the rest of the public.

Am I a liberal or conservative? I'm neither. Like most Americans, I find politics very frustrating. Like most Americans, I'd like to hear from politicians the facts. That is what drives me.

There's lots about politics I don't feel comfortable with. To talk about the politics of future ideas is impossible in soundbite form.

I long for the day when there are things I feel strongly about politically.

I mean those people who are interested in good government will certainly contribute in order to make certain there's some counter-balance to those whose interests in good government is less.