Quotes About Politics

Some of my earliest heroes were congresswomen like Shirley Chisholm and Barbara Jordan.

I don't believe in gutter politics. I don't believe in gutter journalism.

The Congressional leaders set the agenda for journalism; it's not the other way around.

People ask whether I put the politics first, journalism first or the comedy first; it doesn't really matter. I'm just playing with the cards that I have been dealt because I really love doing what I do.

When I was young, I flirted with the idea of a career in journalism on one hand and politics on the other.

There has to be some decorum left in politics and in American journalism as well. Our husbands are the candidates.

I wanted to be a journalist. I used to write articles at university about politics.

The fact that I have always been deeply invested in politics, and African politics in particular, inevitably played a role in my first novel and, of course, in my decision to write about a handful of particular conflicts in Africa as a journalist.

I cannot do a better job than a journalist. I cannot do a better job than politicians - what I can do is play my football.

I started working as a journalist under Bush, then Clinton, then Bush, then Obama.

I pivoted from a pro-Trump guy to more of a journalistic guy, and I'm going to keep making that pivot. So whenever people think of me as, like, a pro-Trump guy, I don't want people to think of me as a pro-Trump guy anymore.

ABC forbids political activity by journalists.

I must be out of it, but I don't know any good journalists who have excused Clinton's problems.

Writers and journalists tend to be simplistic about politics when, like all other areas of life, it's more complicated.

Both CNN and NPR prohibit political activity by all journalists, no matter their assignment.

You turn on the TV, and you see very bland interviews. Journalists in the United States are very cozy with power, very close to those in power.

When I did 'Bremner, Bird and Fortune' I think it was accepted that comedians can contest the arguments just as well as journalists.

The definition of political cinema is one I don't agree with, because every film, every show, is typically political in nature. Political cinema is simply the brainchild of bad journalists.

Many good journalists have attempted to confront Trump about his many lies and failures, and have failed.

The fight to get a shield law barring the government from being able to jail journalists is itself a non-partisan battle.

I was one of the few journalists who was quite pro-Corbyn from the beginning.

I learnt a lot in government, and I've learnt a lot since leaving government. The kind of journey of being in government is that you start at your most popular and least capable, and you end at your most capable and least popular.

I think sometimes celebrities can hurt a candidate. You don't want people to judge them on your last project.

Mayors are judged by results.