Quotes About Politics

The biggest problem in politics is that you help some S.O.B. get what he wants and then he throws you out of the train.

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid says he will not seek re-election. Harry said he wants to spend more time with his family. As I always say, check with your family.

The last five-six presidents of Haiti have failed miserably. And I don't think it would be an honor for me to say I want to be the next 'president.' I want to be the man by with whom change arrives.

We need wealthy dogs off the seats of power. They're taking us back to feudalism and I really don't want that. But I'm very far from being a socialist.

People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy.

I sometimes throw in a couple of swears just to keep the Christian right off my tail. I wouldn't want to be the tea party's go-to comedian.

I know there's an online petition to have another referendum [like Brexit] but I think honestly I think if people want to go for it a little further down the line it would be a hiding for nothing.

People want transparency in government.

In some cases, I would not want us to follow their [Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton] pattern. I do not believe they are setting the best example.

We're in such a volatile climate right now politically. I think they didn't want Assassins to not succeed due to popular opinion and politics, versus on its own merits. I can respect that.

If the Scottish want to break away, I shall stand on Hadrian's Wall with a teary handkerchief, and say: 'Good riddance to the lot of you, and take your stupid bagpipes with you.'

The administration still wants to govern from the far-left and that's going to produce kind a partisan result here in the Congress.

I probably not as likely to say what's on my mind, and I think most people aren't. It's not something I would want to always be doing. So that's why I'm not a politician.

The trouble with Democrats is that they all want to run for President

If the U.K. were threatening to withdraw from Europe, I would certainly want Scotland to be out of that.

Most people I know I think agree and even many theists agree with this. We don't want government involved.

Foreigners don't want to invest any more in France - and this is not working.

Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to look at Haiti from a psychological perspective.

A nation is not a budget, no matter how much ideologues want it to be so.

Hamas says in its charter they want to see a world without Israel. They want to obliterate Israel.

As an advisor, I can say what I want. If I were a politician, I would constantly have to compromise, and I'm incapable of doing that.

I'm interested in art for all. I don't want it to be only the sons and daughters of Tory MPs who get to see my plays.

The fact was, Ford kept stumbling around. I didn't want him in the White House. I wanted Carter in, and I had a forum of 20 million people watching.

And I'm asking for your support because I want to defend America, as I've said before, from becoming a socialist nation