Quotes About Politics

We were told our campaign wasn't sufficiently slick. We regard that as a compliment.

I like to say that I don't have the slightest doubt that Barack Obama read me in the early 80s. It's the kind of person he was!

I was initially rather charmed by David Cameron, but I think he's revealing himself to be a slightly darker and less charismatic figure than he first appeared. There's a brutality about him.

I do write songs with a political dimension to them sometimes, but I'm always slightly appalled by it when I do.

I mean, look, we're living in a country where you can't have a non-denominational response. If you're slightly critical of either party, all of the partisans jump on you like you're a lunatic.

I don't see the point of belonging to a party on the increasingly dubious assumption that it's slightly less bad than the opposition.

There has been this slightly naive and perhaps arrogant view that technology can completely reinvent the political system and the way that government and politics works, which is ridiculous.

Although I come from a political family, I consider myself a slightly atypical politician.

As a general rule, midterm elections - in both their first terms and their second terms - aren't kind to incumbent presidents, even popular ones. Just two years after winning a 49-state landslide, for instance, Ronald Reagan watched his party lose control of the Senate and slip further into the minority in the House in 1986.

Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.

The America I love is slipping away.

TV and film are always slipping in political messages, not ones designed to bring us together but to divide us.

I'm old enough to remember when 'Law and Order' was once the Republican campaign slogan.

The slogan of the moderate Republican Party is this: we are rich, and we are not going to take it any more.

When you put money directly to a problem, it makes a good headline. It makes a good campaign slogan. You get to claim that you've engaged in these activities within an election cycle. But certain investments take longer than an election cycle.

I confess that when I hear Boris Johnson's slogan let's get Brexit done it sends a chill. Because it's let's get Brexit done so we can focus on the important domestic issues.

The 2007 Labor campaign was the most presidential in Australian history, with a slogan - Kevin07 - exceeded in its banality only by its success.

I ran my first campaign when I was 11. My slogan was 'Vote McVey, vote the right way.' I've never surpassed it!

Article 370 is not a separatist slogan.

Planned Parenthood can't hide their sickening abortion business behind a 'safe, legal and rare' slogan.

It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.

Compromise disappoints those who buy into the most ambitious and simplistic populist slogans.

Republicans can be a funny bunch. They're against affirmative action, but they always seem to be able to find people of color to fill a slot just when they're most needed.

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.