Quotes About Politics

The only people I've ever heard saying that disagreeing with Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld is un-American or treasonous are people who disagree with Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld.

Can anything be more Un-American than the Un-American committee?

The Tories seem unable to make any impact north of the border.

In the United States, the world's most important democracy, Congress seems permanently deadlocked, in hock to moneyed interests, unable to grapple with the big issues of climate change, technological change, the information revolution.

The DMK has been unable to defeat me.

The idea that two political parties can't come together to get a mission done is foreign to me - and unacceptable.

I readily concede that a prime minister is not required to speak on every occasion or on every subject, but when there is a duty to speak, silence is unacceptable. Silence can be a strategy, silence can be a tactic, but silence can never be an answer to the ills of our polity and the fault lines of our society.

President Obama has been attacking relentlessly. In 2008 he said that if you're out of fresh ideas you use stale tactics against your opponent - you try and make your opponent unacceptable and that's what he is trying to do.

It is unacceptable that a senator or a representative in the American House of Representatives assist Afghanistan during the war and meet with Bin Laden and al-Qaeda leaders, express his support for their war against the U.S., and be allowed to return to serve in Congress.

It is absolutely unacceptable to think that in the last year of the president's term, that he should stop doing his job, and he won't.

I have done over 50 years in politics and this trial by media is unacceptable to me. Anybody can take any stand, and then run editorials... The media creates a hype, the opposition starts shouting, I sack my ministers... how do I run my government?

It is unacceptable for the men and women who protect us to be treated like second class citizens over partisan bickering.

I could never vote for Trump. His divisive rhetoric is unacceptable and I just could never support him.

It is unacceptable that Democrat leaders would rather push their divisive agenda and focus only on identity politics instead of holding hearings or doing the bipartisan, substantive work Israel needs.

Too many people on the Left think that, when you move a chunk of money away from people for entitlements, that the money magically reappears and that discretionary spending will be unaffected.

There are two ways of looking at the talking filibuster. My way is as a form of unanimous consent.

At minimum, we must recognize that there are legitimate, unanswered questions about whether the Obama Justice Department involved themselves in a political project targeting then-candidate Donald Trump - a suggestion that has far more evidence behind it than the directionless investigation into Trump/Russian collusion.

I lost a lot of friends at the hands of the British Army. The person who actually introduced me to my wife, Colm Keenan, was murdered by the British Army. He was a member of the IRA, but he was unarmed.

An excessive amount of my time is taken with political involvement. It's unavoidable; that's my temperament.

I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false.

Obama is a guy who claims to be unaware that there was a Tea Party, a guy that's detached from the country.

How many times have we seen politicians in office become cut off from the outside world and become unaware that the world has moved on?

It is difficult to believe that parties are unaware of the crimes that their M.P.'s are committing. But there is no effort to take action against them, till they are caught and publicly exposed.

We have this extraordinarily unbalanced constitution, in which we have an elected dictatorship of the prime minister.