Quotes About Politics

Mitt Romney won the GOP nomination on a platform of 'self-deportation' for illegal immigrants - and the Obama team never let Hispanics forget it. The Obama campaign also branded Republicans with Romney's ill-chosen words about 47 percent of Americans as the party of uncaring millionaires.

With Donald Trump as president and Republicans in control of Congress, our healthcare is under attack.

Electing Democrats means nothing happens. Elect Republicans, and at least there's a chance.

As a presidential candidate, Trump seems heaven-sent just to make fools out of Republicans.

Republicans will criticize whatever President Obama does because that is what they do.

The pro-life, pro-family Republicans are now pro-neonatal detention and deportation. It isn't enough to drive out the people not born here; now they want to drive out the ones that were.

If House Republicans can't get border security right, who will trust them on the other bills?

The basic right to quality and affordable health care is under assault by Donald Trump and Republicans in Washington.

Reagan has been deified by the Republican Party, which is odd. The Reagan that modern Republicans revere is not the real Reagan.

There are certainly more Republicans who like President Trump than like 'Republicans in Congress,' and certainly many Republicans who already feel like their own Congress is a brake pedal of its own.

The District of Columbia has every right to pass their own laws, and House Republicans should stay out of it.

We believe that there are aspects of border security that Democrats and Republicans can agree on.

We don't know each other. Democrats don't know Republicans, Republicans don't know Democrats.

Since the Reagan era, Republicans have prescribed cuts for rich people and corporations as a cure-all. But every time they put their theory into practice, the rich just get richer, and everyone else gets left behind.

When Republicans say they want to run government 'like a business,' they apparently mean 'run government like a Trump casino headed straight for bankruptcy court.'

I think women bring a different perspective and that we tend to be more collaborative in our approach. I served in the Iowa Senate back in the '90s, when there weren't a lot of us. At the time, I think there were five or six women, and two or three of them were Republicans and two or three were Democrats.

Republicans are easy to make fun of.

The Democrats would be better off giving the public a chance to vote for someone young - they have young leaders in the party - as I think Republicans should do. I think that is where the future is.

We all know members of the House and Senate - especially the House - who are just crazy and say things that aren't true, Democrats and Republicans.

I actually think that the Republicans are the party of jobs and the Democrats are the party of mobs.

The way I've gotten things done is by working with Democrats and Republicans. I worked with Jay Rockefeller, for example, on highway safety issues.

I think our country will keep Republicans in the majority.

The good news is the Republicans have started to say the right things about net neutrality. The bad news is we're not particularly close on what a bill would look like.

A lot of Democrats like to play the 'If we were Republicans' game. I usually hate it; I don't want to behave like the Republicans do.