Quotes About Politics

I follow politics in a big way, and always have since I was a kid. I've got opinions, but they're opinions on both sides - not just anti-Republican, which is a real popular thing for a rap artist to do. If you dis Republicans, nobody will get mad. I think the two-party system sucks. It's absolutely ignorant.

I did vote Obama. But I've never believed in the authenticity of the two-party system.

There's a high level of frustration with the two-party system out there.

I was in Australia for many years. And the system there is a two-party system and the government changes from time to time.

In America, we have a two-party system, and the American Constitution is a piece of brilliance, but they did not know when they set it up we would just have a two-party system. It just so happens that our electorate pushed towards the two-party system because it's a very good way to govern.

I think the executives have matured enough so that they recognize that we have a two-party system. In California, we have more than a two-party system.

I think it's probably much easier to do political comedy from a two-party point of view, in that the majority have some sense of what it means to be one or the other.

A two-party system is way too good for those two parties.

George McGovern and his supporters committed what, in a two-party system, are capital crimes: they did not compromise, they took hard ideological positions, they alienated a large portion of their party's traditional supporters, and they lost - very, very badly.

We have a two-party system that I think can work well if people make an effort.

I think the two-party system isn't working for us. And it hasn't worked for us for generations - let's be very, very honest about that.

I believe in a strong two-party system, and when one party is losing so spectacularly, it emboldens the other party to overreach and become a cartoon of itself, invoking awful things like - I'm just spit-balling here - child separation policies and trade wars.

Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.

Two-thirds of the American people realize just how bad the nuclear deal is with Iran.

Before holding elective office - 12 years in the Wyoming House of Representatives and 18 years in the U.S. Senate - I served a different type of time. I was on probation for a federal offense committed as a teenager.

It's not just that there's no other spokesperson for the executive seat of power in a democratic republic anywhere in the world where you see that type of lying. It's that there's never been a spokesman for the executive seat in power who is such a prolific liar as Sarah Sanders.

I don't think Fox News or Rush Limbaugh need Clinton it turns out. I think there's a hunger out there for - whether it's on the left or right - a more lively and provocative type of political journalism. I think Salon and Fox on the other side have both benefited from that.

The most interesting conversation is not about why Donald Trump lies. Many public figures lie, and he's only a severe example of a common type. The interesting conversation concerns how we come to accept those lies.

I don't support communism. I don't like that type of government.

Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution.

I was scared, because I knew that in the political arena, you have to satisfy so many different types of people at once, and I wasn't sure that I could speak for everybody and be politically correct.

Even some of the most jaded D.C. types are still impressed when the leader of the free world enters the room.

The conversation has become so divisive now on all types of immigration reform that it is really hard to move anything.

Things won't change unless we have new types of candidates.