Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould Quotes

The law is solely made for the exploitation of those who do not understand it.

[As the minority] you vote for the legislation that’s presented to you. That’s sometimes a very difficult choice to make.

Who is in charge? Is it taxpayers or is it the special interest groups?

You may not be thinking about politics, but politics is thinking about you.

Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.

I hate uneducated people having power …

Do you not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed?

Man, you could make a lot of friends real fast on those supercommittees.

We wrestle with the political issues of who has stewardship over life.

A man with a club is a law-maker.

Legislation is the art of compromise.

There is a paradox in politics that what it takes to get elected is not necessarily what it takes to govern, and my feeling is that trying to control things too much feels icky to me.

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

It's so much easier to throw rocks than it is to govern.

A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

Washington is like playing the Super Bowl, only there are no timeouts, no potty breaks, and the arena is filled with the media. In government, you have to learn to put yourself second in a big way. But I am a business person at heart. I like to be in charge.

The functions of these elders, therefore, determine the power of the people; for a representative is one chosen by others to do in their name what they are entitled to do in their own persons; or rather to exercise the powers which radically inhere in those for whom they act.

I was elected six times to represent southern Arizona, in the State Legislature and then in Congress.

In politics, as in business, leadership is crucial.

The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control.

The purpose of a politician is to be a leader. A politician has to lead. Otherwise he's just a follower.

The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.

You know, people'd always ask 'Why is Jesse Jackson running for the White House?' They never seen the house I'm running from.

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.