Quotes About Politics

Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over.

We need to restart political processes to end wars.

America is addicted to wars of distraction.

Voters have consistently brought up the topic of 'endless wars' and demands to 'bring the troops home' to me since I ran for office. It's not a left-right issue, either: Both sides question our military presence abroad.

Politicians do not enter into wars lightly. It is usually the military themselves who are keener to become involved.

I believe, for a long time, protracted wars test the will of any democracy, to be sure, and people will underwrite a protracted war if they see some progress. But if they don't see progress, and it appears to be futile and useless, then that political support begins to evaporate rather quickly.

Efforts to repeal Obamacare are misguided, dangerous, and just another instance of Republicans fighting the political wars of years past. But, health care shouldn't be about politics; it must be about helping people lead healthier lives.

Ultimately, my books are not about the politics, although the toil and the struggle and the wars in Afghanistan have a significant impact on the lives of my characters.

Instead of the international police action we had hoped for during the war in Kosovo, there are wars again - conducted with state-of-the-art technology, but still in the old style.

In the present imperialistic milieu there can be no wars of national self-defense.

I don't go around trying to stir up foreign wars.

My friend Paul Ryan talks about fiscal responsibility, but voted to put two wars on a credit card.

I am appalled by the notion of cultural wars.

It is often noted that it can be hard for democracies to fight wars because of changing public opinion.

I am actually one of those who took President Obama at his word when he first ran - that he would get us out of ill-advised wars, that he would do something about health care costs, and that he would protect civil liberties. Like many Americans, I was disappointed.

Everywhere in the world, we're aware that democracy has incredible flaws and that the word has been used, especially in the United States, to wage wars.

I think democracy is on the decline in the West. Ruling parties are the same: neo-liberalism at home and wars abroad.

Israel does not start wars.

It's important for Americans to know what the guys fighting the wars have been experiencing, not just from the perspective of a talking-head politician or a four-star general.

Countries, not just their armies, win wars.

I can't think of a single example of two mature democracies going to war with each other in the 20th century. It's where there was an absence of democracy and a breakdown of democracy that we finish up with these wars.

If there's Cold War, no 'Star Wars' in China.

I point out the Democratic party won two world wars and beat the depression, cut out the poverty by two thirds, and was responsible for the same sustained prosperity that we've had in the United States. What the hell do we have to apologize for?

The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President.