Quotes About Politics

My fellow Americans, I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes. -Ronald Reagan, unaware a radio microphone was on

Faith is a personal accord between a lone soul and that in which it chooses to believe. In any other guise it is nothing more than a thin coat of sacred paint slapped over politics and the secular lust for power.

Trump shows no philosophical or moral compass and is so divisive that his negative ratings are sky high.

The Republican party is not perfect, but if you put this party's record of achievements on one side of a balance scale and the Democrat's record on the other, the Republican side would slam the table.

It took us 200 years to elect the first Democratic woman to the Senate in her own right, and that's Barbara Mikulski. Six years later, we had a grand slam: We elected four new Democratic women to the Senate. Sen. Mikulski now has some company.

Sometimes I get slammed because I work at Fox and I am black. People are like, 'How could you work there? Who are you?' People really want to know what are your politics personally. Some of them, not everybody.

I do not wish to slander his name, I think Netanyahu ran the country well but his time is up.

If you go into an academic institution with a clean slate, you are very likely to come out a liberal. That is a huge problem.

It is undeniably the duty of the opposition party to field a credible slate of candidates for the nation's highest office.

As a rule, I feel more comfortable on the Republican slate.

The people of Montana want to send me to Washington - not to bring home the bacon but to slaughter the hog.

If you want to know how Hillary Clinton could try to distance herself from President Obama's much-criticized foreign policy, listen closely to the words of her former top strategist, Anne-Marie Slaughter.

There were dragons to slay in the old days. Nixon was a good dragon.

You know I don't really have faith in politicians - this is quite a sleazy business. But there is no law which says that all politicians will turn out to be scumbags.

Campaign staffers develop the ability to sleep through anything.

I know that every time I list something that I am, I am potentially alienating a whole group of people. Publicists and managers will encourage you not to say what political party you belong to, what you eat, what you don't eat, who you sleep with and all that stuff.

For eight years, I was sleeping with the president, and if that doesn't give you special access, I don't know what does!

Eritrea is hellbent on destabilising Ethiopia. It does not care who it sleeps with.

Far too many candidates wear their faith on their sleeve.

I've always felt like there are certain politicians that wear their religion on their sleeve in a way that you almost feel is disingenuous. I think that your faith has to be first personal. I struggle with those people that preach something and go back behind closed doors and live differently.

Politicians in Canada should not put their religion on their sleeve.

McCarthyism is Americanism with its sleeves rolled.

International politics attracts politicians who talk a good game, but whose achievements are often slender.

Goodness knows the Republican electorate is a pretty narrow slice of the population.