Quotes About Politics

I made more decisions in a half-day as governor than you can make in a whole week in the Senate... it's too slow for me.

The frustration of the Senate is that it's slow. It looks like an aquarium.

I've made the comment that democracies work slower than dictatorships. That's a true thing.

Presidents fall into second-term slumps for different reasons.

One of biggest lies in politics is the lie that Republicans are the party of big business. Big business does great with big government. Big business is very happy to climb in bed with big government. Republicans are and should be the party of small business and of entrepreneurs.

I'm the guy who's started businesses, I've been a small business owner. I've employed hundreds of Pennsylvanians. I know how to get jobs moving in the private sector, rein in the excesses in Washington, and bring some balance to a town that's lost all balance.

I believe we're the party of small business.

Set politics and party aside: If it's not right for Michigan's small businesses and middle class, it's never been right with me.

Whenever I'm asked if the Trump tax cut is for the rich, I say yes. It is a tax cut for the rich. It is a tax cut for the middle class. It is a tax cut for small businesses. It is a tax cut for the Fortune 100.

I think Canadians are more interested in international events than Americans because it is such a small country, so politics affect it more.

The school system has become a part of this huge government machine, governed by people who aren't close to the situation. That's why I'm a Republican. I believe in small government.

I eat and breathe small government and freedom.

I thought the irreducible requirements of Republicanism were being for life, small government, and a strong national defense.

A political and economic system that only works for a small group at the top is a system that needs to change.

War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.

The day of small nations has long passed away. The day of Empires has come.

D.C. is a small town with some big-town features.

While a truly national third party wouldn't necessarily be bad, smaller niche parties are ill-suited to our federalist system.

When all is said and done and the e-book is written about politics and the Internet, it is not going to be about the presidential election. It will be about the smaller elections in aggregate that have a huge effect on people's lives.

Everyone knows the presidential candidates and has an opinion about them. But as you get to smaller races, that evaporates and you can win through sheer elbow grease.

Fundamentally, all art is about human beings. You're always showing larger moral questions through the smaller moral, philosophical, or political choices through one character in the book.

The government is just too big, and we have to make it smaller; people are getting lost.

Those at the top would do better with a smaller share of a booming economy that elicits a positive politics than they will do with an ever-larger share of an anemic economy that fuels the politics of anger.

Arkansas is a very small state, and it's even a smaller field when you break it down to Republicans in this state.