Nicole Seah Quotes

Here's what I've found in Louisiana: The voters want to know what you believe, what you stand for, and what you plan to do, not what shade your skin is.

Every political persuasion has something they want to get off the screen.

A platform is something a candidate stands for and the voters fall for.

It's no secret that I've become known for my strong political views.

You've got to be known for what you're running on, what principles.

So I think that we're in a very heightened and somewhat unusual period of politics and polling around the countries that New Zealanders take close interest in.

Some say I was disappointed when President Obama won, and that is absolute nonsense.

Government frequently has a problem recognizing perception versus reality.

Politicians are trying to attract people to issues.

There is little doubt that the majority of Mr. Mill's supporters in 1865 did not know what his political opinions were, and that they voted for him simply on his reputation as a great thinker.

The Democratic Party is the party of the status quo.

Politicians are good listeners. Because if they're not, they aren't politicians for very long.

We tend to talk, Democrats, as a party, in legislative terms.

Politics doesn't matter, policy does.

If you are running for the presidency of the United States, you better have a strong opinion.

You can come to a political position from an emotional place.

I'm a politician. What I say is not holy writ.

An elected executive—whether President, governor or mayor—needs a popularity majority every day in his term.

What is a platform? An elaborate, exhaustive, minute and accurate statement of a candidate's political beliefs. Does he write it? Oh No; it is published before it is known who he will be.

You can’t be too firm. What the public meetings want is nonsense, not politics: something quite shadowy, speculative, and not practical.

Real political issues cannot be manufactured by the leaders of political parties. The real political issues of the day declare themselves, and come out of the depths of that deep which we call public opinion.

That mysterious independent variable of political calculation, Public Opinion.

As usual, the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.

You make a good politician, but you've got to develop a philosophy.

There are certain elections where policy matters more than others….Personality without a platform will not cut it.