Quotes About Politics

It bothers me when the Hollywood elite are all so against people having guns and want rigorous gun restrictions.

Being a conservative also used to involve the concept of people being free to do whatever they want to do, as long as it doesn't hurt somebody else. Conservatives used to be very libertarian.

I just don't see why anybody would vote Republican in the Army. If you want to support the troops, if I was a troop, I would say, 'You know how to support me? Don't send me to stupid wars.'

I'm a Congressman, and can do whatever I want

Sometimes in the middle of a presidential campaign, there's a political movie, and people are sick of hearing about politics, and they don't want to see that movie. They'd rather see "Godzilla."

Everyone wants to demagogue everyone else. That may be good politics, but it's awful policy.

We dont vote in Northern Ireland for what we want, we vote against what we dont want.

President Bush says he now wants to simplify the tax code. Only those in the blue states will pay.

I can't see why anyone would want to be in politics because you get so much criticism.

It's a long time until the next election, but it starts now. And if you truly want to see things change in the direction that our country is headed, you have to stay involved. You cannot quit now.

You know, a lot of the people that are running. We want to go in; we want to have majorities. It's very important.

Say good-bye to a Supreme Court that is truly open and balanced and looking out for the American people. Instead the Republicans just want to capture a right-wing court for another whole generation.

Politics comes and goes, but your principles don't. And everybody wants to be loved -- not everybody. ... You never heard anybody say, 'I want to be despised, I'm running for office.'

A vigorous democracy a democracy in which there are freedom from want, freedom from fear, freedom of religion, and freedom of speech would never succumb to communism or any other ism.

What we've seen from Donald Trump has been so negative that nobody wants to be associated with that.

The people who say they're for democracy want nothing to do with democracy.

Pragmatism is the disguise progressive and other ideologues do when they want to demonize competing ideologies.

Trump appeals to the disaffected by loudly trumpet-ing what they want to hear: other people are always the problem, and the solution is to either put them in their proper place or get rid of them.

Hillary Clinton is going to find common ground with the Republicans on foreign and military affairs. They both want to enhance the military budget.

You can play golf with liberals, be neighbors with them, go out to dinner. I just don't want them in power.

Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.

The one thing that unites Sunni, Shiites and Kurds is they want the Americans out.

Voters want a fraud they can believe in.

[The politician] is asked to stand, he wants to sit, and he is expected to lie.