Neil Bush Quotes

Politics doesn't matter, policy does.

Today's public opinion, though it may appear as light as air, may be tomorrow's legislation-for better or for worse.

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

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

Public opinion has become the public law

Politics is about explanations.

Public opinion is very important in the United States. It affects the way Congress deals with issues.

Politics is a leading indicator.

In a democracy, every little wrong idea may grow up to become national policy.

In America, public opinion is the leader.

I am not playing for any lobby. I am playing for national lobby. I will ignore lobby. Anybody has useful suggestion, they can give it to me. The history will speak about it.

Children have in the past and continue to influence policy makers.

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

Avoid any specific discussion of public policy at public meetings.

There is a circus around politics. But if you think it is a game, then you forget what the purpose of politics actually is.

Public influence is the real government of the world.

The last thing you want to do is read the latest poll and then make policy.

What Congress does is respond to pressures that are upon it.

Towering over Presidents and State Governors, over Congress and State Legislatures, over conventions and the vast machinery of party, public opinion stands out in the United States, as the great source of Power.

Democracy is more than just election day.

How can we decide matters of public policy when we cannot understand them?

In a democracy, as a matter of course, every effort is made to seize upon and create publick opinion, which is, substantially, securing power.

Sometimes political parties have a very short window to influence public policy

That mysterious independent variable of political calculation, Public Opinion.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed. Consequently he who moulds public sentiment, goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or pronounces decisions. He makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to be executed.