Quotes About Control

We need to take back control of our political process. We know so much more about what Brexit will mean, and the health implications, especially for those who are already in a disadvantaged position.

People are really looking for greater sense of control of what happens in their lives, about the issues they really care about, and they feel that the political system doesn't necessarily deliver.

Communism is a monopolistic system, economically and politically.

Labour and land are always politically sensitive.

To a British politician, a police officer is as invisible as the railings.

A businessman can be as military as any politician.

I don't think I have the demeanor to be a politician. I'm used to making decisions and to a certain extent being in charge.

Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians.

The bureaucracy always goes with the way politicians go.

One must bear in mind that the expansion of federal activity is a form of eating for politicians.

We have to save ourselves from ourselves. We have to minimize the effect our own politicians can have on our society. We have to get some rules from the outside.

I guess you can get politicians out of politics, but you can't get politics out of them.

In working class districts, you had several families living together in the one house, and it was very difficult to get a house, because the politicians who controlled housing were doing so in a very discriminatory fashion.

Politicians as a class are dangerous, that people who are seeking power over us are not, by definition, our friends.

The last thing we want is politicians running newspapers, but so too we don't want newspapers running the government.

I've been dealing with politicians all my life. All my life. And I've always gotten them to do what I need them to do.

The world is governed by opinion.

Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.

Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.

The politics of fear are always the same. They are easily recognisable in retrospect. They are easy to acquiesce in at the time.

Greening the globalised manufacturing and sourcing will be the single biggest help multinationals could make to the tough pollution control in China and other developing countries.

You can only do so much in the gym or pool. Seventy per cent of it is physical, but the final 30 per cent is down to the mental capacity to actually control what you can do in competition.

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

Poor people are too stupid to know they're just chess pieces in a game.