Robert Peel Quotes

Reforming is about curbing government power. It is a self-imposed revolution; it will require real sacrifice, and it will be painful.

I am totally in favour of reform - but it must be reform that changes the nature of British politics, not simply the makeup or operation of parliament.

We have a country that is $5 a gallon gas, $4 a gallon gas, we got unbearable unemployment and a federal government that is out of control. We have to take back this country and we've got to get off the sidelines and take it to President Obama.

We are all representatives of the American people. We all do town hall meetings. We all talk to our constituents. And I've got to tell you, the American people are engaged. And if you think they want a government takeover of health care, I would respectfully submit you're not listening to them.

I will run an open government that speaks with honesty, seeks opinion, listens to its citizens.

It's time for an American comeback... where leaders in Washington listen to 'we the people.'

The reform of government needs to continue.

Is there any wonder why we are in such big trouble? Any question why the people don't trust their government anymore, and demand a change?

Today we must make a pact with each other to end this reckless conduct with the people's government.

As a businessperson, I don't have the power to change the government. That is in the hands of the political leaders. However, as a taxpayer, we have the right to be critical of the government and demand change.

We have a government that, generally speaking, does not respond to the people.

When people don't understand that the government doesn't have their interests in mind, they're more susceptible to go to war.

I've found that when you roll up your sleeves and join people in their daily work, they tend to open up quite a bit and let you know what they really think about the issues facing our country and what kind of job they think the government is doing.

I think the media has been in denial just like the party regulars have been in denial. They just don't understand that the government that we have today is not what the people want as a government.

Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls.

I would have a democratic process for people to get together and talk about the way they want the government to conduct business with China.

The function of government is to provide you with service; the function of the media is to supply the Vaseline.

Our new government is now in full Operation, but how it will move or what will be the End of it I can scarcely conjecture. I am not yet in Love with it, & I doubt if I ever shall be

Experience shows that the most dangerous moment for a bad government is usually just as its starting on reform.

Public agencies should be criticized.

The revolution is on the verge of winning. We cannot crush it but perhaps we can strangle it …. Perhaps it will be possible to divert the revolutionary energies into the legal channels of an election campaign.

From the quarrels and seditions which are often stirred up in a commonwealth, it never results that the citizens dissolve it, as often happens in the case of other associations; but only that they change its form into some other

If revolution insists upon overturning established order, let other peoples make the tragic experiment. There is no place for it in America.

It is far from a coincidence that the rise of the popular press spelled eventual doom for monarchs of all types. Once the news becomes democratized, governance is sure to follow.

When we ignore the will of the people, people lose.