Max von Sydow Quotes

Here's to democracy. May we get the government we deserve.

I believe in professionalism, less in politicians.

The CDU is willing to continue to take responsibility for our country. We want to do justice to the government mandate.

I write a lot about the past because I really see things clearly in hindsight.

I think we need politicians; we need people who want to serve.

Good ideas are the backbone of good government.

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.

Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.

Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.

If I weren't doing the politics, I wouldn't be doing my job.

There are, believe it or not, good politicians.

Thus, neither my government nor myself, personally, are without ideals and responsibilities.

What is government itself but the great reflection of human nature.

While not all politicians are statesmen, all statesmen are politicians.

The job of the politician isn’t to tell you what you want to hear, but to tell you what needs to be done.

Government is not the enemy. Government is simply a tool that can be used wisely or unwisely.

Government is not for the short-winded.

We love the blather and boast, the charge and countercharge of campaigning. Governing is a tougher deal.

The success of an elected official is doing what everyone knows needs to be done.

Pubic business must be done. It will be done one way or another. If wise men refuse it, others will not. If honest men refuse it, others will not.

We cannot long protect liberty if our leaders continue to act like mere bystanders in the work of government.

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in a true sense, a noble one.

If you believe in democracy, than you can't trash it by being cynical about the people who do democracy: the politicians.

In politics, the leaders are supposed to work and work.