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Quotes About Politics

Yes, Israel's our ally. But, are the Palestinians our enemy? No, they are not.
~ Brent Scowcroft
Yesterday's moderate is today's terrorist.
~ Tomi Lahren
I shouldn't make fun of the blacks: President Obama is a personal friend of mine. He was over to the house yesterday, but the mop broke.
~ Don Rickles
If you begin to give people hope that there is a brighter future, there is a new tomorrow, then the people who were yesterday's terrorists become tomorrow's elected officials and they're part of the system.
~ John Shelby Spong
The president's decision yesterday to set into motion the development of the hydrogen bomb... has placed us on the knife-edge of history.
~ Henry M. Jackson
Yesterday Senator John Kerry changed his mind and now supports the ban on gay marriages. I'm telling you this guy has more positions than Paris Hilton.
~ David Letterman
The venerable Robert E. Lee has taken some vicious hits, as dishonest or misinformed advocates among political interest groups and in academia attempt to twist yesterday's America into a fantasy that might better service the political issues of today.
~ Jim Webb
When I die, I don't want my demise to be used as a political rally, and that's what happened yesterday.
~ Bill O'Reilly
I was looking at a photograph of the 1997 election campaign yesterday, and I thought: 'My God. Did I really have that hairstyle? And that Tory blue suit?'
~ Theresa May
According to Mr. Obama, exceptionalism is so yesterday, an uncool, antiquated and ultimately destructive notion.
~ Monica Crowley
The Conservatives are so busy focusing on yesterday, they're not focused on tomorrow... on how elections are won in the 21st century.
~ Douglas Alexander
It was the students who entered kindergarten in 2011 who are - and I am weighing my words carefully - the sacrificed generation. It is they who have paid a high price for the politics of yesterday - that is to say, the government of Mr. Fillon.
~ Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?
~ Thomas Jefferson
Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Once it becomes impossible for members of Congress to make a career of legislative service, the temptation to bend a vote for whatever reason may yield to the better angels of their nature.
~ James L. Buckley
Advocating for affirmative action through the prism of diversity may be more politically palatable, but it will inevitably yield insufficient results.
~ Clint Smith
The aim of the Palestinian terror is not just to kill Israelis but also to break the will of Israeli society in order to dictate a political solution. Israel should never yield to this terror campaign.
~ Ehud Barak
Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.
~ Noam Chomsky
The minority yields to the majority!
~ Deng Xiaoping
America is exceptional: but because it yields the likes of Obama, not the likes of Bush.
~ Eric Liu
After Trump, how can we credibly say that our process for choosing a national leader yields the best possible result, or even someone capable of uniting the country, let alone running it?
~ Joy Reid
When you read about the real history of where feminism comes from, it came from a very political point of view. I don't believe in bringing any politics to an idea like feminism. I love the idea that women should be celebrated, but I also believe men should be, too. We need both - yin and yang.
~ Michelle Phan
Those who call Bharat Mata as 'dayan,' who does not acknowledge Kashmir as part of India and use foul language against our PM Modi and CM Yogi Adityanath, stands exposed before people. Their anger is visible when I meet them and they share their views.
~ Jaya Prada
When Caroline Kennedy managed to say 'you know' more than 200 times in an interview with the New York 'Daily News,' and on 130 occasions while talking to 'The New York Times' during her uninspired attempt to become a hereditary senator, she proved, among other things, that she was (a) middle-aged and (b) middle class.
~ Christopher Hitchens