Quotes About Politics

I am a conservative, but I am not a zombie.

The entire political class and ruling Wall Street class are zero-percent-interest zombies who talk about 'deflation' in the value of their second, third, and fourth homes. This is paper-deflation, zombie-deflation, and has nothing to do with the real economy.

'Feed' is about zombies and politics and blogging. It's about how George Romero actually saved the world! It's 'Night Of The Living Dead' meets 'The West Wing.'

Folks, the zombies are not on television - they are in Washington, D.C., and they meet at the Capitol Hill Club and call themselves 'Realists.'

I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also.

A country outside the euro zone cannot have a veto over countries in the euro zone.

The greatest danger zone a president can be in is when he is being attacked on the left and the right.

Across the continent, political divisions are deepening. For all of these reasons, the specter of a euro zone collapse has not been dispatched.

Miliband failed us, his Labour supporters. And Labour will now, because of him, be in a disaster zone for a long time.

In the end, the politics of the euro zone weren't strong enough to create a fully integrated fiscal union with a common banking system, etc.

I think most Minnesotans are in a grey zone politically.

If you're hanging around with nothing to do and the zoo is closed, come over to the Senate. You'll get the same kind of feeling and you won't have to pay.

When I decided to go into politics I weighed the costs. I would get criticism. But I went ahead. So when virulent criticism came I wasn't surprised. I was better able to handle it.

People who leave Washington D.C. do so by way of the box - ballot or coffin.

You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned 70, or given up all hope of the Presidency.

Nothing ever gets settled in this town (Washington). It's not like running a company or even a university. It's a seething debating society, in which the debate never stops; in which people never give up, including me, and that's the atmosphere in which you administer.

The father of confederation is deadlock.

Sir John A. Macdonald

Canadian politics in British Columbia is an adventure, on the Prairies a cause, in Ontario a business, in Quebec a religion, in the Maritimes a disease.

That one never asks a question unless he knows the answer is basic to parliamentary questioning.

The Americans are our best friends - whether we like it or not.

Ours is a sovereign nation Bows to no foreign will But whenever they cough in Washington They spit on Parliament Hill.

There can be no return to prosperity while the government (of Ontario) believes that taking money from the people who have earned it and giving it away to the people who haven't, in exchange for their votes and regardless of merit, is the essence of fairness.

Commerce is greedy. Ideology is blood-thirsty.