Kamal Haasan Quotes

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.

One thing I have frankly decided is that when it comes to political reform we have two conservative parties in British politics. Both the Labour and Conservative parties have constantly and repeatedly failed to honour promises they have made about reforming, cleaning, modernising our clapped-out system.

It's an embarrassment that we don't have a broad enough consensus among political leaders that true reform should take place. I could count the members of Congress on one hand that took these issues seriously.

We need citizens willing to make Congress accountable for the travesty which passes for government today.

We need elected officials who care more about policy than politics.

Hold us accountable. There's no accountability in Washington. Drain the swamp.

We have work to do, and Tuesday Americans sent Washington a clear message - get the job done.

I'm running for senator because it's time for a change.

People are fed up with the career politicians who created this mess or failed to prevent it and neither was acceptable, and the only way we could change that was by sending a different type of person to Washington.

Society judges political parties based on the results that they give. When they don't meet the population's needs, when they are not up to expectations, that leaves society free to pick other parties.

To serve as prime minister while being too mindful of the approval rating is like serving as a prime minister on a roller coaster. What is important, I believe, is that I really act on promises that I make and leave results. Leave a track record and show that to the Japanese public, who will, at the end of the day, I hope, appreciate it.

We have to judge politicians by their cumulative score. In one innings they make a great catch, in another they drop the ball. In one they score a home run, in another they strike out. But it is their cumulative batting average that we are interested in.

I was elected to come to an incredibly dysfunctional capital and make the government work better, and that's what I'm doing.

The White House alone cannot hold its opponents accountable.

The President is accountable only to the country.

Turn the rascals out.

It has been said that this Congress is to be a do-nothing Congress. My humble judgment is, if this House shall investigate carefully and determine correctly and accurately the numerous contested-election cases before it, it will have performed a duty to the country of greater importance than the settlement of any question that has ever claimed the attention of a deliberative legislative body in this Republic for the last half century.

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

The great problem is how to discharge presidents who have outlived their usefulness to the country

We’re the Republican Party in charge of every part of the this government. We have nobody to blame but ourselves.

Politicians can’t just point to problems. They need to propose solutions.

The people have grown tired of the monotony of being served for 20, 30—or 40 years by the same men in Parliament…. Let the Irish people replace us, by all means, by other, and I hope, better men, if they so choose.

A lot of people don't believe that Kirk-Heitkamp is a real reform bill.

I am under no illusion that amending the Voting Rights Act in Congress will be easy, but with bipartisan calls for legislation to address it, I'm confident we are moving in the right direction.

Bruce Rauner needs to lead, and until he does, we must fight to hold him accountable.