Colm Keaveney Quotes

I'm just an American citizen like everyone else and I'm not sitting at the power table in the room where it all happens.

Who is in charge? Is it taxpayers or is it the special interest groups?

Politicians are there to try to deal with stuff, but sometimes it's both fortunate and unfortunate that people like us have more... not involvement, but more power in the stuff that we say.

Leaders are not pale reflectors of major social conflicts; they play up some, play down others, ignore still others.

Remember, the Congress doesn't get as many opportunities to make an impression with the public.

I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we - we own this country. We - we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.

Well they have an input into policy but in the end governments are elected to put together policy but the good thing about the Wentworth Group is that you know you've got 11 pretty capable people with a lot of good ideas.

I'm disappointed that Senator DeWine once again chose to go along with his party leaders and their big corporate lobbyist supporters. Ohio deserves a Senator who will be more than a rubber stamp.

There are many organizations and individuals advocating for the public interest online - what's good for ordinary people - but other interests are more numerous and powerful than they are. I want that to change. And that's what I want to do next.

The role at the DCCC as well as the role of chief deputy whip - I wouldn't be where I am in those spots if it were not for the speaker's approval.

The Scottish Labour Party and its renewal are more important than me.

You may not be thinking about politics, but politics is thinking about you.

Influence elected government officials, don't just elect them. Your right is to govern yourselves, not just to choose your governors.

Burke said there were three estates in Parliament; but in the reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all.

Almost any member of ours is more effective with his elected representatives than I am.

The people never have and never will be able to understand how the will of a majority of the House of Representatives can be set aside by the judgment of a few men on a powerful committee.

We don't have an allegiance to either party. Our allegiance is to the issues that affect our community.

The leaders of a party, or those who are so called, have but little sway over their followers, particularly when not in Government, and when they have it not in their power to threaten them with any very serious consequences

In my experience, only third-rate intelligence is sent to Legislatures to make laws, because the first-rate article will not leave important private interests go unwatched to go and serve the public for a beggarly four or five dollars a day, and a miserably trivial distinction

When you are not running for office, the people in the party listen to you more.

There are very good people in the Labour Party who I would like to see in leadership.

It's time for grassroots citizens to have a president that's focused on them rather than the super PACs.

The inertia of the governed cannot be disentangled from the indifference of the government. American leaders have both a circular and a deliberate relationship to public opinion.

We've all got to discover the courage to ask the difficult questions about the future of our party and the future of the working-class communities who need a Labour government.

Outside Westminster, political debate must seem like white noise that bears little relevance to people's everyday lives. But political choices made by the governments we elect have a real impact on how we live.