Quotes About Politics

Australia will always be closer to the U.S. than she is to China because our values and political traditions are much closer.

Every country has its political face and political traditions.

There are big countries and small countries, rich and poor, those with long democratic traditions and those still finding their way to democracy.

If all political parties are committed to the role of the free market, the politicians act as, I don't know, as traffic policemen; they stand outside the ring and let the real decisions be slugged out by entrepreneurs. That doesn't seem to me a proper democracy.

Whether you're talking about Shakespeare or, you know, if you look at Greek tragedies. I mean, every playwright, every songwriter, every artist who's ever sat down and been moved to create something, has been living in a context. A political moment that's most often reflected in their work. Even if you're, you know, kind of a nature poet.

Reaping political dividends out of tragedies is deeply engrained in the Congress' DNA.

If 30 Australians drowned in Sydney Harbour, it would be a national tragedy. But when 30 or more refugees drown off the Australian coast, it is a political question.

Benghazi is not a scandal; Benghazi was a tragedy.

I feel like there should be a statute of limitations on scoring political points on the tragedy that was Hurricane Katrina.

Benghazi was a tragedy. Libya is a tragedy.

Why is it every time there is a tragedy in the U.S., President Obama blames the gun rather than the criminal?

The political hero is not like the sports champion or matinee idol or daring inventor; like the war hero, he is born only of tragedy.

It is divisive politics to infringe upon the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens after a national tragedy.

That's the tragedy of our country. Everyone is an inexperienced politician.

There is something deeply wrong with a political culture which only wants to talk about incarceration in the aftermath of a tragedy.

The closer we come to the Greek tragedy that is Brexit, the more horrifying it is to behold.

Trump, like any good Stalinist, knows that one death is a tragedy but 100,000 is a statistic.

All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity.

It's tragic from how far we've come from 'Hope and Change'.

Most tragic mistake in history occurred when the United States joined the U.N.

I stood respectfully as Ronald Reagan was sworn in to his second term though I disagreed with him on many issues. I stood as well for the inauguration of George W. Bush's second term though I thought his war in Iraq was a tragic mistake.

I actually thought Pope Paul VI was the most tragic figure in the modern church, like Lyndon Johnson was a very tragic figure in politics in some ways.