Quotes About Politics

It's almost impossible to be funnier than the people in Washington.

If you can't be a populist in Arkansas, you ain't going to be a populist in Washington.

Washington is a city of important men and the women they married before they grew up.

I am having nothing to do with this so-called civil rights bill. The liberal left-wingers have passed it. Now let them employ some pinknik social engineers in Washington, D.C., to figure out what to do with it.

We need a Donald Trump more than we've ever needed anybody since George Washington.

Bush wasn't elected, he was selected - selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines.

People in Washington, D.C., may not be paying that much attention to what's happening in Chechnya, but people in Riyadh and Amman and elsewhere are.

I was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life.

You know people talk about federal money as if it falls from heaven. You know we thank heaven for it, but it came out of people's pockets - and I've driven all over Washington, D.C., I cannot find the money tree.

I came to Washington understanding what the Senate is capable of accomplishing and knowing that I'd have myriad opportunities as a senator to get things done.

A concrete agenda and landslide victory might not even guarantee a president his mandate in a capital as polarized as Washington.

Washington is a very easy city for you to forget where you came from and why you got there in the first place.

I grew up in that world of power and politics in Washington, but when you grow up around it, you are completely unfazed by it.

As an Independent, she has no party backing... Her being the first Independent president trumps the fact that she's a woman. It causes even more upheaval in Washington than her being female.

We got to do a few things with President Clinton. To be invited to Washington again to play with Ashanti and all those other cool people there in front of President Bush and the rest of the world feels awesome. I'm really looking forward to going.

People have no confidence that Washington, both sides of aisle, are coming together to try and do what's right for the economy.

Bringing accountability to Washington has been an important part of my time in office and an important part of my campaign.

Living in Washington, you can't take politics too seriously. I draw the line at honesty. I have no time for political hacks who say things they don't believe because they get paid to.

Kennedy was like a rock star. Carter was the earnest outsider at the height of Washington cynicism. Clinton was a bad boy who proposed his 'third way' of Democratic politics, and Obama brought hope and change to a country that so desperately needed it.

I guess what bothers me so much about what I now see going on in both Washington and in Texas is an effort to keep people from finding out about the mistakes of lawmakers and then when they're uncovered, an effort to fool people and pretend there was nothing wrong.

There have been more people disenfranchised in Washington than there have been in Kuwait.

In short, I will never allow partisanship to undermine our national security when the lives of countless people lay in the balance. If that earns me enemies in Washington or at the State Department, then so be it.

Washington, D.C. is a city filled with people who believe they are important.

I've known Don since he came to Washington. When he first came to work for George W. Bush, he was a different Don Rumsfeld. He was jolly, full of life, and ready to go to war, but only if we could win.