Dee Dee Myers Quotes

We've got to trust the politicians with these decisions.

In any country, governance issues are there. Challenges are there, pressures are there. When multi-party coalitions take decisions, sometimes delays will be there. But that is what democracy is: it is beauty or it's challenge.

Voters do not decide issues. They decide who will decide issues.

The challenge has been, we make policy in the world of politics.

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.

Life is challenging enough without politicians to confuse us.

By voting, we add our voice to the chorus that forms opinions and the basis for actions.

I don't really like politics, to be honest. But it's other people making decisions about my life and my country and my child's education... I wish we didn't have so much money in politics, but that's not the world we live in. If we don't play here, we forfeit. And I'm not willing to forfeit my rights.

I think the most useful thing you can do as a writer is to reconstruct real life with all its color, hardship, joy, and intrigue. If you're interested in people, you honor them best, I think, by making the fullest possible picture of them. Your subjects may - and from my experience probably will - protest your portrait of them.

Politics now is rather like going into Starbucks for a coffee.

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

Politics is not an exact science.

The dominant color of politics is gray; difficult choices and compromise are required at almost every step of the journey toward a major new program.

You can not reduce issues to simple yes or no answers in a plebiscite.

I trust the American people. They almost always get it right …

Governments propose, and oppositions dispose.

People vote for their dreams and fears.

Democratic processes require time.

When you're trying to make decisions in the executive branch, sometimes these news reports get inside your decision making cycle.

What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.

Democracy requires that those who bear the consequences of decisions have enough knowledge to hold the decision-makers accountable.

Politics is who gets what, when, how.

Everything appears to take long in Congress. This is democracy in action.

Americans take part in political activities because they believe that by doing so they can influence government decisions