Quotes About Politics

Under Conservative, Labour, and coalition governments, the U.K. was never willing to accept all the moves to union or all the requirements of the E.U.

I'd love to run for office, but it requires such knowledge.

Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me.

A government of, by, and for the people requires that people talk to people, that we can agree to disagree but do so in civility. If we let the politicians and those who report dictate our discourse, then our course will be dictated.

I believe being a good senator requires two things. Number one, acumen. Number two, interest.

Political courage requires clarity.

Politicians move when the public requires them to move.

The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.

It's not just parliament that requires radical modernisation. It's our democratic processes.

Transformational politics requires us to challenge the way people think about issues, opening their minds to better possibilities.

Politics requires the sense of possibility. Dare I say it - the audacity of hope.

Transactional politics requires us to be pragmatic about current realities and the state of public opinion. It's all about getting the best result possible given the circumstances here and now.

We've got enormous potential, phenomenal potential on our doorstep, which requires politics that makes that work, and that's what we try to show here in Ireland: that while there's a lot of pain, the reward at the end of this is career opportunities, prosperity, and brighter days for everybody.

It is no exaggeration to say many evangelicals consider Trump an anointed figure; a clearly venal man somehow chosen by their God to rescue America from venality.

Now, ignorance is one thing, ignorance can be cured. But many of the Republican leaders opposing this research know better.

I'm the only candidate that will fund time-travel research.

Between 1995 and 1997 I was a researcher for a Labour MP. And looking back I realise I wasn't a very good one.

I kind of resent the idea that the whole world has to be interested in the American elections.

Bengalis love to celebrate their language, their culture, their politics, their fierce attachment to a city that has been famously dying for more than a century. They resent with equal ferocity the reflex stereotyping that labels any civic dysfunction anywhere in the world 'another Calcutta.'

I resent the idea that Israel is part of the political agenda in United States' campaigns, really.

I resent it when any part of the government refers to people who have money in the pejorative.

Reservation is a socio-political necessity. Hence, there is a constitutional provision for it.

When I was the BJP president, I had fixed 33% for women in organisational posts. And BJP became the first party, not only in the country but in the world, to introduce women reservation in the organisation.

My sense is that the majority of Conservatives share my reservations about how we got into Iraq.