Millicent Fenwick - People Quotes

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The only people who should be in government are those who care more about people than they do about power.

Millicent Fenwick

Since Hitler came to power I have never really trusted government, and it is because don't trust government that I am a Republican. Democrats don't mind mandatory laws, regulations and ordinances.... Republicans tend to ask 'Why? Is the situation such that we must order people around?'

Millicent Fenwick

I have come to believe that the one thing people cannot bear is a sense of injustice. Poverty, cold, even hunger, are more bearable than injustice.

Millicent Fenwick

Like life and people, it is full of paradoxes. Etiquette is based on tradition, and yet it can change. Its ramifications are trivialities, but its roots are in great principles.

Millicent Fenwick

The money that is spent in elections is absolutely unconscionable - even if it's private money. It's true that one's not corrupted by the expenditure of one's own money, but to some extent the system is. We cannot have a system in which the only people you can count on for a vote that doesn't look as though it might be a vote for a special-interest group are people with enormous fortunes.

Millicent Fenwick