Beau Willimon Quotes

If our political leaders are to be always a lot of political merchants, they will supply any demand we may create. All we have to do is to establish a steady demand for good government.

Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.

I think I should be active politically. Because I look upon myself as a politician. That's not a dirty work you know. Some people think that there are something wrong with politicians. Of course, something wrong with some politicians.

We shouldn't accept mediocrity as the best a politician can do.

Most people who get in trouble in politics usually get in trouble because they're disconnected from the people they serve, and I don't think anybody in Tennessee, even people who won't vote for me, would accuse me of that.

Bangalore needs a honest, passionate and hard-working MP, and I will be that MP.

It is more important for Labour to raise the reputation of politics than for the Tories, who are only in politics for the money.

I don’t know why we expect perfection from our elected leaders.

If you will refrain from telling any lies about the Republican Party, I'll promise not to tell the truth about the Democrats.

You can't adopt politics as a profession and remain honest.

Politicians are not the most reflective people in the world.

For much of my career I had no authentic political voice. I had been campaigning all over the country not to change the world or shake up my audiences but to please the roomful of people to whom I was speaking... As a result, my words rarely had the ring of truth to the nonpolitical observer.

Politicians... say what they say - you might get every now and again a genuine one, innit? But I think people, like, as a whole make the difference.

Our judiciary has a reputation for intellectual rigour, careful consideration of the arguments, and a serious-minded determination to each decision based on what is right and not necessarily what is superficially popular. I am not sure that all politicians have the same reputation.

In the political realm, when I say I'm going to give everything, that means I'll represent the people to the best of my ability.

I see myself as a former politician, and in that capacity, I say to other politicians, 'Hold back.'

I believe that politicians should implement the promises that they've given in manifestos.

You cannot punish the people for the mistakes the politicians make.

We need clean candidates. Party A puts up a candidate and he is terribly corrupt. Party B puts up a candidate who is even more corrupt. There is no choice. So I have the Clean Candidate Campaign.

We are hiring too many people who are called politicians, and we are not holding them accountable…. You do not hire someone and not tell them what to do. Make a trip to Washington and see that they are doing what you want them to do.

The only way to have clean politics is to pay party district and city leaders as business executives.

A politician’s task was to bring reality and policy into the greatest possible accord with the ideal and the principled.

A politician would rather face bayonets than admit that he had a bad idea.

The public, by and large, trusts its leaders not only to tell the truth, but to get the job done. When they don’t get the job done, they get punished, and when they don’t get the job done and it comes out that they lied, they’re in really serious trouble. This is what happened to [Lyndon] Johnson and it’s what happened to [George W,] Bush. If you’re going to tell a lie, make sure the policy works out.

Is there some reason why the quality of people going into the parliament is not as high? I don't know the complete answer, but I think - in fact, I'm sure - that part of it is the increasing intrusiveness of the media - the general media and social media - into the private lives of politicians and their families.