Will Hurd Quotes

You can't forge a new sort of consensus, you can't forge public opinion, by following public opinion.

Setting up a community and seeing what happens to it when the megalomaniacs get busy: that's my main preoccupation.

You learn more about a person from the people around that person than you do from the person themselves. We all have our own ideas of who we are that may or may not be justified, and you can really find out a heck of a lot more accurately from the people around an individual.

It would be just like him to wait for some expression of public opinion instead of giving direction to that public opinion.

Look, the people will elect the government they think best.

In my solo series, I feel like I've often dealt with groups of people.

I do believe it is true that the people of India regard the prime minister as the most important political leader.

Political books are so often written from the perspective of the politicians, not from the point of view of the people.

The chemistry at a table is so important. You must start with a carefully balanced mix of personalities. If the balance is off, and the stakes are too big for some of the players, it kills the game. Too small, and everybody gets bored.

The only thing you have to watch out for is other people who feel threatened by your party.

If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I've got to get out.

no one in a group of three is the same person he (she, it) is in a group of two. No more than he is the same in a group of two as he is alone.

I'm a big fan of human dynamics. Nothing fascinates me more than really interesting people and human dynamics.

I think that when people start hanging around each other, they start to pick on on each other's quirks and taste in music, apparently.

The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him.

If you look at the other people around at the time - Charles Clarke, Alistair Darling, Jack Straw - they've all gone. And they're not old. What's happened is that someone who is quite old - Jeremy Corbyn - is now leader. We have to take some responsibility for that.

People are social beings and want interaction and social learning is the primary form of learning, just as word of mouth advertising is the highest form of advertising.

Politicians are always interested in people. Not that this is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs.

The first follower is actually an underestimated form of leadership in itself. … The first follower is what transforms a lone nut into a leader.

There are going to be people doing the talking and people who get talked about, choose, which one do you want to be?

Politicians are like weather vanes. Our job is to make the wind blow.

You almost never get the pleasure of seeing that you won the argument in real time. People just don't like to publicly change their minds. They change their minds in private.

People [are] as much a source of entertainment as they [are] a source of irritation. it keep[s] things balanced.

I would support whoever the people have chosen. We have to abandon the thinking that there is a bunch of politically elite people who know what is best, let the people determine for themselves who is best.

Democracy is a system that gives people a chance to elect rascals of their own choice.