Quotes About Politics

In this post-post-racial, post-Obama era of resurgent populism and Balkanized identity politics, it really does feel as though it matters - and matters more than anything else - whether you're black or white.

Mitt Romney is a true Mormon. John Edwards and Bill Clinton are not real Mormons. It was not 'Brigham Young' they were chanting. It was 'Bring 'em young.'

I would vote for a Mormon.

I can tell you, if I'm elected president, it won't be on the Koran, and it won't be on the Book of Mormon.

How is it possible to defame Trump? When Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called the president a 'moron,' was that defamatory or merely the prosaic truth?

I guess intractable right-wing ideologues are my mortal enemy.

I'm a bit too old for anarchy. If I was younger I might be more political but I'm married with kids and I've got a mortgage.

Robert Moses wasn't elected to anything. We're taught that in a democracy power comes from being elected. He had more power than anyone, and he held it for 48 years.

There are a lot of heartbroken, anxious people that thought better of their country. We're heartbroken by how far Trump has gotten to the most powerful position in the world.

New Jersey's governorship is the most powerful in the nation.

We've killed a million Iraqis since the start of the Gulf war - mostly by blocking humanitarian aid.

Hugs are helpful, especially when women step out into a mostly male political world. Emotional support, at critical moments, enables women to stay in the race.

I don't read books by people who have betrayed the Motherland.

There are very few women in the Senate and very few mothers.

My dad's career in politics, along with that of my grandfather, Prescott Bush, taught us that good people motivated by helping others can jump into the political fray and make a positive difference.

The Green Party is full of motivated, driven people who want to make change happen as fast as possible.

I mean if politics was my main motivation I would be doing politics. But I'm a filmmaker.

I hope I represent a type of politics where we bring people together, where we inspire people - and we do it with this motivation of building a world that's better for everybody.

It's good to learn and be engaged and listen to people, see what's going on. But that's not the motivator: if I was a political person, I'd have gone into politics.

There are people who do everything for a calculative political motive. My only motive is a human motive.

I have become the chief minister not with a selfish motive.

I don't think I would have to run a campaign that's financed like General Motors.

We just put General Motors in the hands of people who can't even run our own government.

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