Quotes About Politics

I had the belief that many troubles you could observe on the European continent were due to politicians not understanding economic phenomena. Even if they had good intentions, they didn't have the skills to solve problems.

We may never really know if 2004 Democratic presidential nominee and Senator John Kerry was President Obama's original choice to be Secretary of State or if he settled on Kerry after his first pick, Susan Rice, was forced out by her troublesome career and misleading statements on the Benghazi terrorist attack.

Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

This principle is old, but true as fate, Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate.

Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?

I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction.

I think it becomes incumbent upon a candidate to essentially disavow some of the things that are in that party platform. Otherwise, I think the assumption is that you are a true believer.

Politicians aren't special. They lie the same way we all do, revealing their true nature under pressure.

For many decades, Whitehall has deceived itself and deceived the public about the true nature of the E.U. project.

The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion.

This would seem to be a truism in contemporary American politics: The electorate opts for serious leaders, but almost always men who are able to poke fun at themselves - and the gravitas of their position.

Anyone who has been around Washington politics long enough can't avoid this truism: Election-year money is like a rushing river that invariably finds cracks in any dam the reformers erect.

It's a truism to say that my state, Texas, isn't a red state: It's a nonvoting state.

I truly believe that people like myself, who are in a position of entertainers in the limelight, should keep their mouth shut on politics.

After the death of the sadistic dictator Gen. Sanni Abacha in 1998, Nigeria underwent a one-year transitional military administration headed by Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar, who uncharacteristically bowed out precisely on the promised date for military disengagement. Did the military truly disengage, however? No.

The Democrats have responded to the Republicans' lack of dealing with reality by truly not dealing with reality, either.

I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood.

My hope that Thatcher would inadvertently bring about a new political revolution was well and truly bogus. All that sprang out of Thatcherism were extreme financialisation, the triumph of the shopping mall over the corner store, the fetishisation of housing and Tony Blair.

There aren't a lot of things that are extraordinary about Putin, but his greed is truly extraordinary.

It's very clear that the Bush Administration is out of control. It contains some truly dangerous people.

The Trump-Pence administration has truly become one of the most explicitly anti-LGBTQ administrations in history.

My Democratic friends just can't accept the fact that the American people chose Donald Trump to be president - it's called democracy. My advice to them, and I say this gently: Fill out a 'Hurt Feelings Report' and let's move on.

Donald Trump is a phenomenon that foreign countries haven't seen. So it is a shocking experience to them that he came in to office.