Elizabeth I Quotes

Good government is good politics.

Not only capacity and talent in the administration, but also a perfect heartfelt cordiality among its members are essentially necessary to command the public confidence.

Truth is the glue that holds government together. Compromise is the oil that makes governments go.

I think with the right leadership on both sides and the right president, we can get a lot done.

Now, and ever, I shall do all in my power for peace, consistently with the maintenance of government.

I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family.

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

We have a good time and try not to kill each other.

I played on teams with 24 guys pulling the rope one way and one guy pulling the other. I've seen how destructive it can be. I tell them, 'If 13 of you are insanely successful and one fails, we all lose.'

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.

The one thing I'm convinced George W. Bush is good at is bipartisanship. It's clearly something he enjoys personally.

The greatest power is not money power, but political power.

When asked if I miss being in government, I usually try to lighten the moment by responding that I awake most days, read the paper, and then observe that, 'It's yet another great day to be the former director of the Central Intelligence Agency.'

I think everything should happen at halfway to dawn. That's when all the heads of government should meet. I think everybody would fall in love.

The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.

To craftsmanship we shall add statesmanship in the capitol of peace.

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

The essence of good government is trust.

Politics is the art of the possible.

I choose to bring people together. I choose to seek compromise.

We stand on the watershed dividing the past from the future. Let us bury the past in so far as it is dead and forget all bitterness and recrimination. Let there be moderation in speech and writing.... There has been violence—shameful, degrading and revolting violence—in various parts of the country. This must end. We are determined to end it. We must make it clear that political ends ae not to be achieved by methods of violence now or in the future.

All governments, without exception, are stable only insofar as they can effectively reward and punish.

The chairman of a committee should be in harmony with the majority who constitute it.

Politicians make pacts; people make peace.

No absolute is going to make the lion lie down with the lamb unless the lamb is inside the lion.