Quotes About Politics

I decided that I was going to leave State House, and I was going also to step up and step aside so that I give President Peter Mutharika an opportunity to run the country without my interference.

I don't hate Peter Robinson, and I don't think Peter Robinson hates me.

Lobbying is not a bad thing. I'm not trying to say that we shouldn't have lobbyists or we shouldn't have lobbying to petition our government. It's in the Constitution, and it's something that should be honorable and good.

The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.

I worked on Capitol Hill for five years, and I saw how things work and how they do not. I saw the partisanship, the gridlock, the pettiness, and the corruption.

I never said finish the Congress, because the opposition is needed... I do not have such petty imaginations.

When sports gets involved with petty politics from authorities and co-athletes, it becomes a nasty game.

I think Hillary Clinton is a phenomenal woman, and I've gotten to know her, and I think she's made some pretty major contributions over the course of her life.

The late Roy Jenkins was both a mentor and a personal friend. He was a man of both phenomenal intellect and political achievement in equal measure.

It is not only in Meerut but entire U.P. where caste equation has phenomenal influence on politics.

'The Daily Show' is a cultural phenomenon.

There is no doubt that there is a very strange phenomenon called the 'State Comptroller.'

The Trump phenomenon shows us how much fear of Muslims there is out there and how easily it can be exploited.

For even the most seasoned observers of American politics, Barack Obama is a phenomenon.

Nobody is more conservative in the Congress and the House than Phil Gingrey.

I got elected as the mayor of Philadelphia and yes I am black. But my responsibility is to all the citizens of the city.

Many are asking what my credentials are and what I can do for the Philippines. They are telling me that they heard I am a womanizer. That is true. That is very true.

Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.

Well you know it's dangerous in politics, because especially in the Philippines there's a lot of killing in politics.

It doesn't matter whether you're guilty or not in Rodrigo Duterte's Philippines.

The American people want to pay attention to serious ideas again. Our founding was built by people who were political philosophers, and we need to get back to that, away from this kind of cheap political rhetoric of Right and Left.

Any political or philosophical agenda can and will be perverted by power and/or fear.

For me, my secularism is, India first. I say, the philosophy of my party is 'Justice to all. Appeasement to none.' This is our secularism.

Conservatism, for me, is the philosophy and the politics of attachment.