Quotes About Politics

I think that Congress and its affiliates and journalists who support them have made trolling quite a sophisticated measure of intervention.

Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.

After I quote unquote came out as a Republican, one of my dearest gay friends said to me, 'You've got to go on a T.V. show and tell everyone you like gay people.' I was like, 'Why?' He was like, 'Because you're a Republican.' I was like, 'I'm sorry who's stereotyping who?'

I feel sorry for many politicians... we expect them to be completely consistent and moralised when we're not.

You know they've come to this point where they want to blame climate change for quite literally everything now, and sorry, but the Green New Deal is not going to solve that.

I'm sorry, you leftists: you're not the only people whose motives are pure.

I don't care about Donald Trump. I mean, God is my president. So I just feel sorry for people it affects, but I don't care about him.

We want to make politics sort of entertaining. If it is entertaining, people are going to be interested in it, and if they are interested in it, they might think more about it and maybe involve themselves in some way down the line.

In every sort of politics, in history, it has its own problems, its leaders, its own opposition.

I would not want to live in a country that would have me as a leader in any sort of political bent.

I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities.

The country has sorted itself ideologically into the two political parties, and those partisan attachments have hardened in recent years. It will take an extraordinary event and act of leadership to break this partisan divide. I thought 9/11 might provide such an opportunity, but it was not seized.

It is no secret that I believe my son, Attorney General Beau Biden would make a great United States Senator - just as I believe he has been a great Attorney General. But Beau has made it clear from the moment he entered public life, that any office he sought, he would earn on his own.

Politics in Slovakia had long been a battle between egotistical men. Caputova sought to be the anti-ego alternative.

The Left has always sought single, non-values-based explanations for human behavior.

Romney is a good, intelligent, extraordinarily generous man who put on a great fight. But he didn't understand the country or the people he sought to lead, and that is why he lost.

If Obama was fundamentally different from prior presidents, Trump seems to violate every tenet of what Americans have long sought as our national image.

George Bush looked into Putin's eyes and saw his soul in the first meeting he had in Slovenia. And then in the next meeting, he realized his soul was very dark.

Charts and learning the politics behind making a record - it's pretty soulless.

But remember, I am no politician, and no seer into souls.

I'm a national security liberal, which I tell people because it's meant to sound absurd.

The danger with running for president is sooner or later some sound bite is going hit.

When you take a subject and reduce it to something like a four-second sound bite and a check mark on a ballot, I think that that's inappropriate and insensitive.

By that I mean, I think that it is true that politics and political heroes have to satisfy our need to be greater than mortal in some way, and that's led them into creating illusions, sound bites, focus groups that tell you what to do.