Quotes About Politics

Rhine laughed. "She bribed you?" "Sure did, and I took it like a politician at the state capital.

the Fifteenth Amendment

I don't think the upper 1 or 0.1 percent were ever tearing their hair out about Trump. They were ecstatic that somebody that right-wing, and that bigoted, came with a built-in fan base -- a cult following, even -- that you could never build from scratch with a Jeb Bush or a Ted Cruz or a Marco Rubio. Behind the scenes, they love this stuff. They think they can get away with so much more.

People ask where my political views and visions come from. That started practically when I was old enough to walk. We didn't get a TV for a while, but when we did, there was Oswald getting shot, live on TV in the living room. There was the Berlin wall going up, the bloody Vietnam war, Watergate, the race riots started by the police. Network news wasn't so censored then. You would see how badly wounded people where when they took them off the chopper. News wasn't all sanitized like it is today.

I wanted to have a political career. I thought studying political science would be the best way to achieve it.

Four more years of Donald Trump will fundamentally change the nature of who we are as a nation. We've got to restore this country's soul, that's essential. As long as this president is there, we're not going to be able to that.

The vice-presidency is not a job designed to enhance your standing.

After 9-11, the President had a historic opportunity to unite Americans and the world in common cause. Instead, by exploiting the politics of fear, instigating an optional war in Iraq before finishing a necessary war in Afghanistan and instituting policies on torture, detainees and domestic surveillance that fly in the face of our values and interests, President Bush divided Americans from each other and from the world.

Donald Trump talks about America first. He's made America alone.

Make no mistake about it. This campaign will send Donald Trump packing. This campaign is taking off. Join us.

The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.

Peace, n. In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.

DIPLOMACY, n. The patriotic art of lying for one's country.

The sheep-people don't think for themselves anymore. You can say anything and it's the gospel truth and they don't have to go research it or anything, and they believe everything the news tells them. People don't go and do their own investigations if it's relationships or politics or anything.

You cannot live a political life, you cannot live a moral life if you're not willing to open your eyes and see the world more clearly. See some of the injustice that's going on. Try to make yourself aware of what's happening in the world. And when you are aware, you have a responsibility to act.

Two years outside the country, and not much had changed. Still, more people watched the Super Bowl than voted; budgets for defense outweighed education, medicine, and everything else combined....

I am going to say this again: I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.

I do not believe that the politics of personal destruction is what the American people are interested in.

We must free science and medicine from the grasp of politics.

You know, by the time you become the leader of a country, someone else makes all the decisions. ... You may find you can get away with virtual presidents, virtual prime ministers, virtual everything.

If you want to live like a Republican, vote like a Democrat.

I did not have sexual relations with that woman

When we talk about safety and security of the American people, politics falls aside pretty quickly.

Terrorism has no rules except to effect terror. And that is why I wrote the book I did, based on experience and what I thought I understood of the way politics works. And terrorism is politics, no matter how extreme.