Quotes About Politics

I think the elites who have done nothing about it, who don't want a wall and don't care that the border is illegal, they see this as a threat.

There's practical political considerations obviously, but there's also these broader themes, which is like, I don't want to be the manager of the Middle East.

I treat politics kind of like my religion. It's something I believe in, but I don't want to have to make a living at it, because if you make a living at it, you somehow become dishonest.

You can justify, from a political standpoint, any type of violence you want to use.

See, Barack been, um, talking down to black people on this faith-based... I want to cut his nuts off. Barack, he's talking down to black people.

Today New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie announced that he's endorsing Mitt Romney for president. It's good news for Romney. I mean, you always want Chris Christie on your side. Unless you're in a canoe.

I think that the people in Indiana want to see more jobs, more opportunity. And they want to make sure that Washington listens to them.

What did John Ashcroft say about moderates, he said, quote, there are two things you find in the middle of the road, a moderate and a dead skunk and I don't want to be either.

The Commission on Presidential Debates must be replaced if we want to have a democracy in this country.

Iran wants the money. And I don't believe they want it for roads or hospitals or schools, I believe they want it for more terror.

We've got to force the Democrats to get a spine. If they don't want to have a spine, we should throw them out. If they don't want to stand up for the rule of law, then I'm not a Democrat.

Any politician who is not a unifier is not somebody that I want to be for.

If the [Republican] party wants to have an ideological debate, it's never going to win anything in a major way.

I'm not sure, if I were President Clinton, I wouldn't want to be pardoned for something that I believed that I didn't do.

The question is not whether you would like to be president or not. The question is: Do you think you can win and do you want to run? And none of those are clear to me.

Why, listening to Obama talk about his economic triumphs over the last three years might make you want to move to the country he was describing. Too bad that country exists primarily in his own head.

People can make arguments from the Bible if they want to. But I want them to see that they should also give arguments that all reasonable citizens might agree to.

And then you've got Lieberman, who is for the war. And thinks the tax cuts could really help. He's basically for people who want to vote for Bush but don't think Bush is Jewish enough.

People are voting for the kind of country they want to live in, and there are different views about what kind of country we should have.

Compromise is what it's got to be all about when you're governing, because no one is ever going to have a big enough majority to just do what they want to do all the time.

There's no logic in how Donald Trump thinks. I don't want someone who's the president who says 3 to 5 million people voted illegally when there's zero proof. It's a crazy person.

I do situate myself in this problem of being a Jew who doesn't want to be represented by the state of Israel, a state that claims to represent all Jewish people and make me into a potential citizen.

I especially cannot imagine anyone who grew up during the Cold War era listening to Donald Trump and saying, you know what, that's a guy that I want to support. It makes zero sense.

We've learned that Donald Trump can say whatever he wants and switch it a minute later, and nobody really cares.