Quotes About Politics

I don't think we should be undermining our democracy.

It is simply not possible to achieve the 'freedom' from E.U. economic institutions that Brexiters want without undermining Britain's economy and security.

It's like miners' coal dust underneath your fingernails. Very difficult to scrub out. I'm a social democrat to my fingertips.

I want everybody to understand that I am an American Negro first before I am a member of any political party.

Since I'm the president and Democrats have controlled the House and the Senate, it's understandable that people are saying, you know, 'What have you done?'

I cannot imagine a context that would some day, in some manner, make the monstrous crime of September 11 an understandable or comprehensible political act.

People have a very political way of looking at war, and that's understandable.

I have invested the best part of my adult political life in helping to try to build up this movement and I am far from perfect but I do think I am able, through the media, to deliver a good, simple, understandable message.

The European Union is an institution that is in the interest of big business, not the European people. So it's understandable that some people thought we should leave.

The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.

We have been educated into believing someone else's concept of the deity, and someone else's standard of beauty. You have the right to practice any religion and politics in a way that best suits your freedom, your dignity, and your understanding. And once you do that, you don't apologize.

The spirit of forgiveness should prevail, and there should be tolerance and understanding among all political parties for us to move forward.

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

Many in Taiwan believe that Hu Jintao is much more sophisticated than his predecessors in understanding Taiwan. He represents a different generation of leaders, more pragmatic, less ideological.

The New Right, in many cases, is doing nothing less than placing a heretical claim on Christian faith that distorts, confuses, and destroys the opportunity for a biblical understanding of Jesus Christ and of his gospel for millions of people.

I am convinced that there are few, if any, American people that could even start believing or understanding what living in a socialist country does to a person.

I certainly know that the NDP and the Liberals talk about understanding climate science; they just haven't put forward anything that suggests they actually understand it.

The American understanding of China is filtered through years of politics; we rarely see the culture on its own terms.

Whatever understanding is reached with Pakistan has to be followed honestly, and everybody will have to rise above party politics and be actively committed to make India prosperous.

I'm having a hard time understanding Donald Trump because he says one thing one day then corrects it the next day.

This is indeed not only relevant to Documentary but is evident is most type of film making. The film often mirrors the experience, understanding and politics of the director.

The economic and political roots of the conflicts are too strong for us to pretend to create a lasting state of harmonious understanding between men.

We've been very bad at understanding why the right-wing does things.

I'm here tonight, not as a Republican, not as a Democrat, but as an optimistic American who understands that we must come together behind the one man who can lead the way forward in these challenging times: my president, our president, Barack Obama!