Quotes About Politics

We can make American governing institutions better, but we can't make them better if nobody wants to go into them because we're bashing them.

Decisions taken by the most democratic institutions in the world are very often wrong.

The E.U., its institutions, structure and ways of working are an anachronism.

Cultural arenas and institutions that were always liberal are being prodded or dragged further to the left.

We don't want to govern the country without democratic institutions.

Mr. Modi has to take instructions from Nagpur, and whatever Nagpur says, he will do.

Jared Kushner is Ivanka Trump husband. Jared was instrumental in being kind of an overlay in kind of bringing Trump's genius down to the all the different parts of leadership.

The white working class likes being pandered to even less than it likes being insulted.

RSS and BJP are not only tarnishing the government but also insulting people of Kerala.

Obviously a president can't rule as a king and ban all guns. But I think we need a president who is going to make sure that there is gun control and that people still feel like their freedoms are intact.

It will no longer be war that is the continuation of politics by other means, it will be what I have dubbed 'the integral accident' that is the continuation of politics by other means.

Scotland is a great country. It's integral to the U.K.

Trump is doing the country a disservice making things up about the integrity of our elections.

Bill Clinton is just as gross as Donald Trump - so much so that the Clinton campaign can't really back Trump into a corner on his integrity or mistreatment of women because Bill's personal history is so damn awful.

Telling or encouraging people to vote for a party would be an insult to peoples' intellect.

Where you don't have people who have strong intellectual capacity, you get demagoguery.

I came from an intellectual Parisian family. My father was a watchmaker; my mother was a housewife. We discussed politics, art, sculpture - never fashion.

A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.

The Liberals are intellectually exhausted.

Would it not be much better to have a president who deliberately lied to the people because he thought a war was essential than to have one who was so dumb as to be taken in by intelligence agencies, especially those who told him what he wanted to hear?

It's certainly not helpful when the commander in chief is a critic of the intelligence community.

Whether its Republicans or Democrats, if they try to leverage the intelligence community for political gain, I won't allow it.

The little Napoleons in UMNO try to keep out people who are more intelligent than themselves.

There is no inherent contradiction between being right-wing and being intelligent.