Tamzin Merchant Quotes

More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

I will always be upfront with the Greek people, so we can solve the country's problems together.

I have always believed that on important issues, the leaders must lead. Where the leaders fail to lead, and people are really concerned about it, the people will take the lead and make the leaders follow.

The first step into justice begins with the politicians. You have to demand from yourself what you demand from people.

I want to be able to talk about changing the world through your actions and being a generation that is aware and a force to be reckoned with - and at the same time be dancing.

Hope and optimism have defined my political career, and I continue to be hopeful and optimistic about Canada. Young people have been a great source of inspiration for me.

We look to our leaders once we elect them to either lead us in the right direction or at least not crush us.

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

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

All politicians will have to change to be worthy of our people.

I don't think any country is perfect. It's our responsibility to do the best we can do to change the things we don't like. I think that's part of social responsibility, and everybody is going to do that in their own way.

And I would like to have a good, productive relationship with members of the City Council, but I'm not going to allow them to undermine what the people's choice was and what the people want, which is change.

I am in politics. Here, it is not possible to know everyone around you. How can I take responsibility for all those who support me or work for me or simply hang around me?

There's something very interesting about world leaders promising hope and then carrying through on that.

The disconnect between what people think and what the political leaders are actually doing is something that we really need to start raising.

We need to be brave and tell the politicians what a better future could be.

I don't really trust politicians, and our job is to call them out. It's old-school journalism.

Youth is always the future of any country.

Today, we are shapers of the world of tomorrow. That is plain truth. There is no way we can duck the responsibility, and there is no reason why we should.

More often than politicians, but not as often as they should.

There are actually very few US politicians who have integrity and vision.

A politician ought to be born a foundling and remain a bachelor.

I think politicians do great things in the world, but I don't think they're the only ones who can. I don't like all the rhetoric and the finger pointing.

Good ideas are the backbone of good government.