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Quotes About Politics

The truth is that searching for our commonality instead of our differences could transform our dysfunctional politics.
~ Raja Krishnamoorthi
Whether it's Delhi, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana or Odisha, we have seen similar patterns - hostile local politics transform into conciliation of some kind after the state elections.
~ Barkha Dutt
The Democratic Party has to transform itself. We can't just pop up every two or four years and hope people will support us.
~ Jaime Harrison
I am aware of the thesis that the United States has long since invested exclusively in stability and this has obviated democratic transformation in the Middle East.
~ Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Simply as an exercise in efficient politics, Obama '08 rewrote the textbook. His accomplishment was historic and one that transformed how race and politics intersect in our society. Obama is the leading edge of this change, but his success is merely the ripple in a pond that grows deeper every day.
~ Gwen Ifill
The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
~ Ban Ki-moon
The Iraqi war has transformed the Middle East.
~ Leon Charney
My life was transformed by the Labour government of 1945. It was transformative for millions of people like me, you know - education, the health service. It was proof that politics can make life better for people; that a social dream can become a social reality by the power of government.
~ Glenda Jackson
Priorities are fundamental to politics because of inevitable information bottlenecks: these bottlenecks can be transformed by rare good organisation but they cannot be eradicated.
~ Dominic Cummings
The only way to improve the GOP brand and make good public policy is to fix the process. This requires transforming the way Congress does business.
~ Dan Webster
You're never able to please everybody, especially when you're transforming a country like Russia.
~ Anatoly Chubais
I don't even think Trump knows what transgender means. He probably thinks transgender people are those cars that turn into robots.
~ Patti Harrison
Before any American points a finger at President Putin and calls him nasty names, they should recognize that a lot of Americans agree with Putin on his stance against homosexual and transgender people.
~ Henry Rollins
The Left has pushed immorality to the point we have so-called 'same-sex marriage' and 'transgender' nonsense trampling the rights of Christians.
~ Jesse Lee Peterson
Holder's Justice Department is not the shield of justice, it has become the shield for Obama's political transgressions.
~ Wayne LaPierre
Interestingly, I was in D.C. in 2000, when George Bush was inaugurated. With our baby in her stroller, my husband and I were confronted with hundreds of angry protesters hell-bent on destroying what should have been a bi-partisan celebration of the 'peaceful transition of power'.
~ Rachel Campos-Duffy
Struggles do not end when countries attempt the transition to democracy.
~ Hillary Clinton
A change in the system will be possible only through the transition of power to supporters of green politics.
~ Sreenivasan
I'm old enough to remember Bush v. Gore, and the transition there didn't start until mid-December, and yet it got done.
~ Robert C. O'Brien
We have to ensure politically that what's doable can indeed by translated into law, but what's not doable mustn't become European law. Otherwise, the auto industry will work somewhere with higher carbon emissions - and we can't want that.
~ Angela Merkel
The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages.
~ Jacques Derrida
Transnational, gigantic industrial companies no longer operate within political systems, but rather above them.
~ Georg Henrik von Wright
Public officials insult our intelligence and our goodwill when they paint rosy pictures about budgets, jobs, bipartisanship, and transparency, and alter their positions on issues simply to keep collecting their paycheck by never disagreeing or disappointing anyone.
~ Wendy Long
If you live in the overlapping world of politics and media, as I am learning, anything less than full transparency can potentially do you in.
~ Campbell Brown