James Florio Quotes

I don't feel political most of the time. Sometimes I'm placed in positions because no one else will go there.

We all have an obligation to move beyond anecdotes.

I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life.

Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it.

I think I can regard myself as a political decision-maker.

You have to spend your political capital on great causes for your country.

I'm not an activist per se, but I have strong feelings about things. People can jump on celebrities for being ill-informed or naive, but I've got a right to say what I believe.

For 18 years I have resisted talking about current events. I am not going to start now.

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

I saw many aspects of the country which I needed to see in order that I might know what we need to do.

Caring about policy is important - people in washington forget.

I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement.

I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks.

As an artist, I used to think that my responsibility was to do good work. But I had to learn from the '70s on that being a public figure presents another aspect of responsibility.

If an artist is driven primarily by social responsibility, I think the art probably suffers because, again, just as leadership has a rather defined end point or purpose, social responsibility would seem to have a very clear moral context.

I never get involved in policy. Never.

Let me control personnel, and I will ultimately control policy.

The best way you make policy in Washington is by doing it yourself.

Remember two things. One is never to forget posterity when devising a policy. The other is never to think of posterity when making a speech.

When moral principles, rather than persons, are candidates for power, to vote is to perform a moral duty, and not to vote is to neglect a duty

If the American people are going to support a policy than they had better be made to understand the rationale.

He who molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or pronounces decisions.

Citizens are refined, cultivated, and very political. I believe in the legitimacy of their participation.

Government is not for the short-winded.

The national policy would be laid in the pure and immutable principles of private morality