Steve Hilton Quotes

The government must give men and women without power a real say over what happens to them, and the means of engaging in a participative, invigorated and living democracy.

The government of our great country belongs to all of the people and not just a handful of the wealthy.

As more and more women, men and young people raise their voices and become active in local government, and more local leaders take action for the safety of women and girls, change happens.

What kind of government is this? This is a human being. This is not right, and I'm telling everybody you better call your congressman, because they're going to run your life.

When the people become involved in their government, government becomes more accountable, and our society is stronger, more compassionate, and better prepared for the challenges of the future.

The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people.

It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.

Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.

You have citizens who don't understand how government works and they're kind of soured on it. All they do is criticize. They have no idea that they can make things happen.

Scotland has been re-energized, and people all over the country have become involved in - and informed about - politics and government in a way that I have never known before. In short, we have put ourselves firmly in control of our country.

If you care about women's rights, you can't not vote.

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.

This administration and these folk who run Washington are no more interested in our welfare and our well being than the man on the moon. And we have got to start taking our destiny into our hands.

We're prepared to place our trust in the people to reshape the government. Our liberal friends place their trust in the government to reshape the people.

Liberty and equality ... will best be attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.

Democracy comes alive not when government does anything, because government cannot be depended on to rectify serious injustices. It comes alive when people organize and do something about it.

We don’t even realize that we do not know who is running our country.

Democracy is a matter of balance—private power balanced by public power

Every one of us deserves a voice that our president will hear.

Soaring rhetoric will not restore the American people's confidence in their government.

I think the answer to civil disorder in America, the answer to police problems in America, the answer to jail overcrowding and all the problems that we see is - the one answer is that government must go back to its people.

What I was excited about was the opportunity for punters to be part of politics. The whole idea was to allow the voices of people outside this weirdo palace of Westminster to be heard. I thought the whole social media thing might be really positive.

We must make both our distributional and democratic systems work for our communities.

We are here to advance the cause of women and to advance the cause of democracy and to make it absolutely clear that the two are inseparable.

Number one comes freedom first for my people and equality. And this is what I plan to do after I'm through fighting - working with nothing but the people, the little people in the alleys: the downtrodden people, going out and helping them with my image.