Quotes About Politics

Obama doesn't know how to be President. He doesn't know how the world works. He's incompetent. He's an amateur!

Participation in our democracy seems to be driven by the instant-gratification worlds of Twitter, Snapchat, Facebook, and the twenty-four-hour news cycle.

Sooner or later, every president faces decisions in which the right choice is bad politics, at least in the short term. If the stakes are high, you have to do what you think is right and hope the political tide will turn. It's the job you promised to do.

Our democracy cannot survive its current downward drift into tribalism, extremism, and seething resentment. Today it's "us versus them" in America. Politics is little more than blood sport.

He turns to her, his lethal blue eyes reduced to a squint. "Kathy." "Lester. Be brief." "I have the votes in the House," he says. "The House is wrapped up like a bow. Is that brief enough?" One of the things she has learned over the years is the art of not responding too quickly. It buys you time and makes you seem more deliberative.

Our democracy cannot survive its current downward drift into tribalism, extremism, and seething resentment.

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Today it's "us versus them" in America. Politics is little more than blood sport. As a result, our willingness to believe the worst about everyone outside our own bubble is growing, and our ability to solve problems and seize opportunities is shrinking.

Bill Clinton

Oh, and stay out of our elections. After I speak tomorrow, you'll have all you can handle to keep rigging your own.

Oh, and stay out of our elections.

Our democracy cannot survive its current downward drift into tribalism, extremism, and seething resentment. Today it's "us versus them" in America. Politics is little more than blood sport. As a result, our willingness to believe the worst about everyone outside our own bubble is growing, and our ability to solve problems and seize opportunities is shrinking.

The eight members of Congress on his side are all in safe congressional districts, gerrymandered so cartoonishly that they could probably drop their pants in the middle of the hearing, start sucking their thumbs, and not only would they be reelected in two years, they would also run unopposed.

There was a time when that statement, from a president to a House Speaker, would be enough. Those days are long in the rearview mirror.

That's the biggest reason governments keep secrets. Not because they're sensitive. Because the secrets are embarrassing

I never inhaled.

Jiang Lijun is not a vice president for the China State Construction Engineering Corporation but a senior officer with the Ministry of State Security. What the hell are the Americans up to?

In newspapers, as various studies have found, stories began to focus less on what candidates said and more on the tactical motives for their statements.

Republicans are taking the defeat over Health Care as well as Tiger Woods took to marriage.

You would think there is a higher bar than having a Facebook page to run for president.

Obama is not a secret Kenyon, or a secret Muslim, he's a secret Republican.

We're all gonna be gay if we get health care!

Fascism is when corporations become the government.

Republicans: 'we fought the good fight' - yeah, it woulda been worth it if we could have prevented just one poor kid from getting a free inhaler.