Quotes About Politics

But I think it's undeniable that the Times is a liberal paper.

I'm kind of a 'Daily Show,' Bill Maher junkie. I listen to NPR and I still get the 'New York Times' paper delivered to my door, even though I live in L.A.

Part of my job is to read the paper, watch C-Span and show things that haven't been shown or were buried.

Bill Astor knew these papers were missing. Stephen showed his hand in October.

Within the paradigm of Democratic politics, even though people probably think I'm a centrist, I'm more a liberal, except for abortion.

We've gone too far in thinking we can re-create an American democratic paradise in the Middle East.

There is a paradox in politics that what it takes to get elected is not necessarily what it takes to govern, and my feeling is that trying to control things too much feels icky to me.

I see a lot of parallels between my father and Donald Trump.

The BJP simply does not want Andhra Pradesh to become the number one state in all development parameters and Naidu getting credit.

Everybody gets paranoid about deselections. I do.

I'll tell you from my heart, looking at their party further and further to the left, to paraphrase the director of the FBI: I think it would be extremely careless to elect Hillary Clinton.

I find Trump to be like a parasite.

George W Bush is like a bad comic working the crowd, a moron, if you'll pardon the expression.

When you look at the Nixon pardon, the short-term gain would have been never to pardon him.

Jews can build in New York, Moscow and Paris, but in our own land, we can't build? That's nuts.

I believe that trying to deal with Donald Trump is like trying to play three-card monte in Central Park: it's not going to work out.

No, I wouldn't let Trump on my stage... I'd just rather fight him in the car park.

I'm not sure about English football to be honest with you. There's a lot of politics down there and I'm not sure it's just about your attributes on the park. If it was I'd still be down there.

First woman of colour, first Black person and first Jewish woman elected to lead a major federal party - it was never going to be a walk in the park.

The Right has such antiquated ideas - if they took charge, I think they'd want to close the parks, open the land up for development. It's an ongoing battle to keep the parks strong.

Fascism in Uruguay did not begin just with the military coup of 1973, but years before, even when there was still a government with a constitution and parliament.

Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Arabs can be elected to the parliament in a democratic election.

The BJP does not intend to use Parliament to project Congress's corruption.

One minute I was a clapped-out, two-guinea, legal-aid lawyer, and the next minute I was in parliament.