Sarah Steelman Quotes

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

The fight is always the same within the Democratic Party, isn't it? The more things change, the more they stay the same.

I loathe the professional politician. I have never been a regular. I have fought political machines and party politics at every opportunity.

We [Republicans] don’t need any new ideas.

Donald Trump represents the same rigged system that he claims he's going to change.

With the people, for the people, by the people. I crack up when I hear it; I say, with the handful, for the handful, by the handful, cause that's what really happens.

I was dissatisfied with the status quo back in the 80's, particularly how the West was represented in federation. I wanted to try to change it.

A two-party system is way too good for those two parties.

There's a tendency, especially among revolutionaries, to only show the good side of yourself and then when you come to power, the bad side comes out.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

I don't want anybody suspecting I am some sheep and part of the Washington D.C. establishment.

There is something uniquely depressing about the fact that the National Portrait Gallery's version of the Barack Obama 'Hope' poster previously belonged to a pair of lobbyists. Depressing because Mr. Obama's Washington was not supposed to be the lobbyists' Washington, the place we learned to despise during the last administration.

Conservatives conserve and that is why they became irrelevant.

If, as is natural, you focus on the corruption and on those threatened institutions that are trying to prevent change - even though they don't really know what they're trying to prevent - then you can get pessimistic.

I'm not a Washington person.

Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.

The conservatives say they are protecting the values of society. They are protecting their privileges.

Liberal institutions soon cease from being liberal the moment they are soundly established.

There are two great enemies of thought and progress, the aristocracy of royalty and the aristocracy of gold.

In politics, good gets better; bad gets worse.

Political authority is problematic in Africa because of the blurry dividing line between the public and the private realm. Formal rules matter less than a series of informal institutions that regulate politics.

Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. Men who have greatness within them don’t go far in politics.

The problem is never the populist’s imperfect capacity to represent the people’s will; rather, it’s always the institutions that somehow produced the wrong outcomes. So even if they look properly democratic, there must be something going on behind the scenes that allows corrupt elites to continue to betray the people. Conspiracy theories are thus not a curious addition to populist rhetoric; they are rooted in and emerge from the very logic of populism itself.

I do, in some senses, feel that Hollywood and Washington are similar in that, first of all, they are, again, male-dominated worlds, which is not unusual. There are a lot of industries like that, but also, there's a lot of politics when it comes to the ins and outs of getting things done, getting a film made.

The paternalism of the Conservative party is breathtaking.