Quotes About Politics

The allies we gain by victory will turn against us upon the bare whisper of our defeat.

A time-tested political tactic guaranteed to raise a president's popularity rating by at least 30 points. It is especially useful during election years and economic downturns.

Winston Churchill could not definitely remember a time when his country had not been at war.

In the last war, people became vocal from the right-wing point of view: if you're liberal, then you're a traitor.

Politics is the womb in which war develops - where its outlines already exist in their hidden rudimentary form, like the characteristics of living creatures in their embryos.

Believe me, Germany is unable to wage war.

We've arrived at a point where the President of the United States is going to lead a war on traditional marriage.

Republicans have been losing the war of words for years now. Now they are just caving because they don't even want to try. I don't agree with that approach.

Things move very slowly in politics. We seem to fight the same wars over and over again.

My gut reaction [on Betsy DeVos] was, oh, my God. We are now back into the education wars.

In order to successfully impersonate men, the woman [Margaret Thatcher] launched a war.

When people don't understand that the government doesn't have their interests in mind, they're more susceptible to go to war.

We're fighting three wars now. Imagine how many we'd be fighting if President Obama hadn't won the Nobel Peace Prize.

They said that President Bush's war in Iraq has cost the former Spanish Prime Minister his job. So President Bush isn't losing American jobs anymore, he's branching out to other countries.

Some Democrats say the estimated $60 billion dollar cost of a war with Iraq could be better spent at home. When he heard that, President Bush agreed and announced plans to bomb Ohio.

President Bush said the other day the war is not about timetables. It's about winning. Hey, it worked in Florida.

We're in more wars today under Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton than under George W. Bush or Ronald Reagan. Yet they tell you that Bush lied and people died, and we were all over the Middle East.

The Italian government, a free French newspaper tartly observed, never finished a war on the same side it started on – unless the war lasted long enough to change sides twice.

There was another war-related casualty today. The French were injured when they tried to jump on our bandwagon.

I got tired of my taxes paying for exciting little wars around the world. Then I discovered that when I died, my wife would probably have to sell our house to pay for the taxes in America.

I guarantee you, as president of the United States, I know how to heal the wounds of war, I know how to deal with our adversaries, and I know how to deal with our friends.

The search for a moral equivalent of war continues to define American liberalism to this day.

Tony Blair is a war criminal.

I think the US and UK thought if they gave a bit more time to Israel, they would crush Hezbollah. But it became very obvious that was an unwinnable war.