We just can’t be the party of NO. We have to be the party of solutions.
The combination of Federalism and Republicanism which formed the substance of the system, did not constitute a progressive and formative political principle, but it pointed in the direction of a constructive formula.
Hate, emotionalism, and frustration are not policies.
Fortunately, we Argentines have decided to change. We believe politics needs to be led by public servants with a vocation to give and construct.
When you start just focusing exclusively on trying to tear the other person down instead of what you are going to do on behalf of the American people to deal with this economy, then that's not serving Democrats, that's not serving Republicans, that's not serving anybody.
I think we should not do what the Republicans did, which is to spend eight years saying they would do absolutely nothing because we do stand for the country.
In the ordinary and low sense which we attach to the words "partisan" and "politician," a judge of the supreme court should be neither. But in the higher sense ... he is not in my judgment fitted for the position unless he is a party man, a constructive statesman ... keeping in mind his relations with his fellow statesmen in other branches of government.
The GOP should be the GSP: the Grand Solutions Party. It should be about solutions, not talking points.
In politics, all candidates and volunteers are ambassadors to voters who expect better than parroting the politics of personal destruction. Being able to find common ground at the higher ground is what separates the stateswoman from the stuntwoman.
You can't vote your hates; you've got to vote your hopes.
The politics of personal destruction, the politics of division, the politics of fear, it's all there. It helps you to define the politics of moderation - the politics of democratic respect, the politics of hope - more clearly.
We have to have some form of politics. Politics is a form of resolving conflicts. Politics which comes from sincere motivation is constructive.
Democracy cannot function just on who do we fear the most, you know, or who do we hate the most; we need an affirmative agenda.
Whenever the country has faced a crisis, the TDP has played a positive and constructive role.
I have a tendency to campaign positively and campaign on issues, not try to tear someone else down.
I really rebel against this idea that politics has to be a place full of ego and where you're constantly focused on scoring hits against each one another. Yes, we need a robust democracy, but you can be strong, and you can be kind.
We have to stick to the message: What are we proposing to the American people? Not, 'What are we fighting against?'
A continuing narrative throughout Australia's history that says it is better to build up than to tear down - this is the continuing mission of Labor.
We can create a new kind of politics: kinder, more respectful, but courageous, too.
I want to work with Peter Robinson as first minister in a positive, constructive way and leave the elections to the electorate.
It's better for candidates to suggest ideas that are responsible, not ones that are incapable of being executed. People are influenced by what their leaders tell them. And bringing the level of rhetoric down brings the temperature down.
If you want to be constructive in politics, the less you look back, the better. If you do look back, then it can only be to learn for yourself through the events that have taken place.
