Quotes About Politics

Sure, this country has a black president, but when you look at a black president, President Obama is left with his foot stuck in the mud from all of the Republicans with the way he's treated.

All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.

Before, Europe was about treaties, laws and our sovereign right to govern ourselves. Now, it's about everyday lives.

But that's the way America rolls nowadays. Consensus, laws and treaties are out. Smug, religion-soaked majoritarianism is in fashion. It is not coincidence that Bible study is returning to American public schools.

Treating people fairly and with civility is not a bad thing... It would be good for our country if political leaders actually took that to heart.

The people are fed up with their elected officials playing the blame game and treating their political counterparts as enemies.

It's hard to be a good doctor if you don't think about the social circumstances of who you're treating. There are many Tory doctors, but I think it's difficult to be a doctor and a genuine right-winger.

It's tempting, when confronted by political malfeasance, to become so absorbed with its symptom that we give too little attention to treating its cause.

I'm known on the Hill for having respect, I think, on all sides of the House of Commons because I don't buy into treating people poorly.

The more Gov. Andrew Cuomo gets away with treating New York badly, the crueler he is.

I told the president 'no' to special treatment for Congress when he tried to exempt them from Obamacare.

If any further proof were needed that the Liberal Democrats live up to neither part of their name, then the treatment of Roman Catholic Robert Flello would have provided it. They were glad enough to have him when he defected from Labour but have now deselected him because he supports neither abortion nor gay marriage.

I am sick and tired of an administration that treats Raul Castro and Ayatollah Khamenei better than it treats the prime minister of Israel.

Britain deserves better than having both of its major political parties mired in controversy about how it treats two of our major faith communities.

Rahm Emanuel seems to think he knows Israel very well, and that the way to treat that country and its democratically-elected government is the way he treats all opponents in politics: by attacking and attacking.

Graham-Cassidy treats health care as a commodity that can be bought and sold.

It's not too late to stop the Lisbon Treaty.

John Foster Dulles had called on me in his capacity as Secretary of State, and he had exhausted every argument to persuade me to place Cambodia under the protection of the South East Asia Treaty Organization.

I do not consider the Lisbon Treaty to be a good thing for Europe, for the freedom of Europe, or for the Czech Republic.

After Plan Colombia came the Colombian Free Trade Agreement. Hillary Clinton opposed the treaty when she was running against Barack Obama in 2008 but then supported it as secretary of state.

In referendums in 2005, the Dutch and the French electorates rejected the European Constitution, which aimed to turn the E.U. into a genuine state. But Brussels refused to take no for an answer. It went ahead with its plans for a constitutional treaty, notwithstanding the people's opposition. Brussels thinks it knows better than the people.

The problem with article 50 of the Lisbon treaty is that it is not substantive in its content or conditions, and only concerns itself with procedural requirements.

In truth, the legacy that President Obama's agenda will leave on history is the poisoning of the tree of liberty.

Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump for a speech on conservation.