Quotes About Politics

A multi-racial team with a black captain means a lot to the country. There will always be negative political parties in South Africa, but hopefully it's something to take forwards.

We were a very politically active family. My father was one of the first lawyers in South Africa to have a black partner, so I grew up very aware of the struggle going on. Coming from that background, it really gave me chills to have my music be a part of the election of the first black American president.

South Africa is highly politicised; even small issues become politicised, and it becomes quite bitter.

Only two countries in this hemisphere are not democratic, but many countries in both Central and South America, and in the Caribbean, are really fragile democracies.

In South America, there is no more room for alternatives to democracy.

'Dhoka,' I think, is not just meant for Pakistan and India but for South Asia.

I salute South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and Sen. Lindsey Graham for their calls to remove the Confederate battle flag from the grounds of the Statehouse.

The people of South Carolina support conservatives who are trying to push real change, and the people of South Carolina expect their presidential candidates to back them up when they show courage.

South Carolina is more of a conservative state than a Republican state.

From the end of Reconstruction through the civil rights revolution, the South was an almost uniformly Democratic region. In 1936, for example, Franklin Roosevelt won more than 98 percent of the vote in South Carolina.

Incredible that liberals aren't more concerned about the monopoly of information in South Dakota.

I hope to continue to be serving South Dakota in Congress.

We refugees, we become always a punchbag. A political punchbag between China and South Korea and North Korea.

I don't think the current regime of South Korea will deal actively with the issue of North Korean defectors.

I think that people always just assumed that I was a liberal because I came from Southeast Seattle.

My mother was a Democrat - southern Democrat, y'all.

Bill Clinton is a classic, old-school Southern pragmatic Democrat.

My family is Southern. I'm used to Bill Clintons.

It's innate in me to be a Democrat - a true Southern populist kind of Democrat. There's not a lot of those anymore. I'm not saying I'm right or wrong. That's just the way I feel.

The Internet is emblematic of an era in which what happens in Southeast Asia or southern Africa - from democratic advances to deforestation to the fight against aids - can affect Americans. As has been observed about water pollution, we all live downstream now.

The diminishment of southern contests is the kind of veiled racist rhetoric that Bill Clinton deployed memorably in South Carolina in 2008, and which does not look any more attractive on Bernie - the guy whose campaign is centered on the premise that he plays cleaner and more progressive politics than his opponents.

I was elected six times to represent southern Arizona, in the State Legislature and then in Congress.

For all of the diversity in 'Scandal,' no one else would be sitting in a room wearing a T-shirt and chains and call a Southern white Republican president a 'boy.' And it's those kinds of things that Rowan has the freedom to say that nobody else could say within the confines of the show.

The Democrats cannot say that we stand with immigrants if that secretly means we only stand with immigrants in odd-numbered years or when southern Democrats complain.