Quotes About Politics

For me, one of my earliest memories of politics where I thought that I could do anything was when Walter Mondale of Minnesota picked Geraldine Ferraro as his running mate. I literally remember what she wore - the red dress, the white pearls. And I saw that, and I thought, 'Anything is possible.'

Once Clinton won, I started picking on him.

I hate picking a bone with Paul Ryan; he's a friend of mine, but I think he needs to walk and chew gum at the same time.

There is two different Donald Trumps. There is the Donald Trump of the '90s... Now you've got this other one. The post-dementia Donald Trump who just loves picking fights because, I think, he's a lonely man.

It's been frustrating. Since I've broken into the top five, I've seen the politics of fighters dodging fights, cherry picking fights and this that and the other.

Most Americans don't shout their politics, much less blast it from their TVs while serving you fried pickles - that's the Left.

Donald Trump has made outstanding picks for his Cabinet.

For the Gandhi family, U.P. elections have always been a big picnic.

I think Russians today have a distorted picture of capitalism, liberal democracy and market economy.

The picture of Prince Charles meeting Gerry Adams is inexpressibly sad.

Children's picture books are a unique record of social evolution: in gender roles and racial politics, as is much discussed, but also in fashion and interior design.

The whole purpose of maintaining your power in government is to make sure that you stay in government. You stay in government by finding out who is liable to be against you. To do that, you try and put your finger into every single pie that is available to you.

As an incumbent, if you are winning, your commercials are about motherhood and apple pie and the flag.

You can't have it both ways. You can't tell me that you're taxed enough already, and that you want constitutional government and then in the next breath say, 'Bring me home some bacon.' The pig has been picked clean.

When it comes to the liberal agenda, it's more important to pigeonhole people than it is to speak the truth.

The Congressman ascertained that the consulate in Havana had numbers to feed the pigs.

As Trump's mistakes pile up, Congress will be left on cleanup detail.

Normally, you cast a pilot, and you have to make compromises about being political about who you cast.

As probably is known, I did not want my husband to join politics. He was not keen to join politics. He was very happy as a pilot.

I've often said that there's no one thing that I do or have done that is particularly unique. There have been a lot of other authors who were in the military. There have been a few others who were pilots. There have certainly been a lot of other people who were in politics or served congressional staffs.

Patricia Nixon gave up a career to become a political wife. She rose to the pinnacle of glory and then fell to disgrace because of deeds over which she had neither control nor knowledge.

For a period of time, my grandmother, Lenore Romney, and my mother, Ronna Romney, were the only two women in the Republican Party to ever secure the nomination for Senate. And they were leaders. They were pioneers in our party.

A moral argument about whether censorship is good or bad deteriorates quickly into accusations about who is more or less patriotic, moral, pious, and so on.

Once in a while, we need the hard Left to pipe up.