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Quotes About Politics

What do you want me to tell Romney? I can't tell him to do that. I can't tell him to do that to himself. You're crazy. You're absolutely crazy. You're getting as bad as Biden.
~ Clint Eastwood
Ted Kennedy is endorsing John Kerry and I'm wondering, do you really want the endorsement of a guy with a Bloody Mary mustache?
~ David Letterman
Hillary Clinton could use one of these Apple Watches. She could hook it up to her secret email account. If you want to contact Hillary, she's at [email protected].
~ David Letterman
Let's go tell everyone we meet that, when the American dream is at stake, you want Barack Obama in charge.
~ Deval Patrick
Now you [Hillary Clinton] want to approve Trans-Pacific Partnership. You were totally in favor of it. Then you heard what I was saying, how bad it is, and you said, I can't win that debate.
~ Donald Trump
I have states that no other Republican would do well in that I think I'm gonna win. But I don't want to name those states.
~ Donald Trump
Voters will decide how they want to be governed.
~ Evangelos Venizelos
If Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable voters.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Some members of Congress now are complaining they are underpaid. They want to propose a pay raise. You can't blame them. A lot of them took a big income hit when Enron folded.
~ Jay Leno
I'm cynical about society, politics, newspapers, government. But I'm not cynical about life, love, goodness, death. That's why I really don't want to be labeled a cynic.
~ John Lennon
Progressivism, liberalism, or whatever you want to call it has become an ideology of power. So long as liberals hold it, principles don't matter.
~ Jonah Goldberg
I said when I came into office that I don't want to be a great leader; I want to be a good democrat.
~ Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
The Democrats' plan for 2006? Take the House and Senate and impeach the president. With our nation at war, is this the kind of Congress you want?
~ Ken Mehlman
I am getting frustrated by the fact that we have been out of office for eight years. I desperately want to lead the Conservative Party to make quicker progress back into power.
~ Kenneth Clarke
If that's the kind of person you want, vote for Hillary [Clinton], vote for [Donald] Trump - and you go to hell with both of them.
~ Louis Farrakhan
Donald Trump says he wants to run America like he's running his business? God help us.
~ Michael Bloomberg
The NRA hates freedom. They don't want you to have the freedom to send your children to school & expect them to come home alive.
~ Michael Moore
The youth of France do not want a new neo-liberal contract.
~ Peter Gavin Hall
You know, it is very clear that the Israelis, they don't want this plan and they don't agree.
~ Rafik Hariri
Both [Donald] Trump and Hillary [Clinton] want bigger military budgets and Hillary supports President Obama's one trillion dollar expenditure to so-called upgrade nuclear weapons. P
~ Ralph Nader
How many times will this Congress waste time on an issue that a majority of Americans do not want?
~ Raul Grijalva
I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.
~ Howard Nemerov
Like in [the 1950s] if you wanted to ruin someone´s career in Hollywood you claimed he was a Communist. Nowadays, you want to ruin someone´s career in Hollywood, you claim they are Republican.
~ Jay Leno
My informal writing style is a political choice, because I want feminism to be more accessible.
~ Jessica Valenti