Quotes About Politics

Most national holidays in most countries rest on selective memories of the past.

Computers have cut-and-paste functions. So does right-wing historical memory.

I'd dearly love to write a political book that changed the hearts and minds of men and women.

Trump is a menace, both ignorant and chaotic. His saving grace is his incompetence.

The mentality in Washington is, 'Look what our government - what our government can do for the American people.' We've got to get away from that mentality, and realize it's too expensive. We can't afford it.

There is a bias; there is a Washington mentality.

America is in a runaway-train position and dragging all the world with it. It's grotesquely mentally ill.

The focus on male politicians extends beyond clothes, legs, and pretty faces. It's hard to find an article about former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich that doesn't mention his mop.

I understand any time you mention Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton and Jesus Christ in the same two minutes, people are going to talk.

Amnesty is the magnet. Other magnets that you mentioned are anchor babies who get benefits in this country and employer deductions for employees, even if they are here illegally, which Mr. King is addressing.

Gabby Giffords was a mentor of mine in the state Legislature and also in Congress.

Alex, AOC, Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez, she was a mentor from afar, even before I got to Congress.

I would love to be a mentor to many people who want to go into the political arena, teach them the art of winning elections.

Obama might do well to remember that his fast rise from the Illinois state Senate was due in large part to an uncanny ability to make friends and find mentors.

You can't not approve a merger because you don't like the companies' politics. That's just not right.

California's a mess.

It's impossible for a Democrat to be a failure. It's impossible for a Democrat to be a reprobate. It's impossible for a Democrat to be a mess. It just isn't possible, as far as the mind-set of the media is concerned.

Cleaning up the mess in Washington is gonna take a whole lot of Iowa common sense.

I want to go to Washington and clean up Kay Hagan's mess.

The Russians are clearly a big adversary, and they demonstrated it by trying to mess around in our election.

It does no good to be a conservative if you can't sell a conservative message in a general election.

I'm not involved in the politics of religion, but I love what the message is.

The message I'm trying to send is that technology is political, and that many decisions that look like decisions about technology actually are not at all about technology - they are about politics, and they need to be scrutinized as closely as we would scrutinize decisions about politics.

Our message to the Russians is stay out of the U.S. elections.