Quotes About Politics

No president has ever been elected with unemployment over 8 percent.

Politics thrives on simple, clean messages, something that played to Obama's advantage in 2008. Stagnant unemployment and the loss of America's AAA rating are as simple and tough as they come. This is the economy on Obama's watch, and there's no one left to blame.

I think no one has ever been re-elected with unemployment over 7.6 percent.

I am opposed to Obama's efforts to destroy the American economy. I'm opposed to Obama's efforts to so-called fix the health care system. I'm opposed to the way Obama wants to go about fixing unemployment.

In undergraduate school, I chose a career path that always leads to certain unemployment: I majored in politics and public affairs with a double-minor in philosophy and history.

Every Labour government has left office with higher unemployment than when it entered.

Rising fuel prices, growing agrarian distress, and unemployment are the three major issues to dominate the 2019 general elections.

Starting and feeding into the cultural war is absolutely unequivocally wrong for us as a nation and bad for the conservative movement.

Rudy Giuliani was a great mayor and a great leader, but he has turned into an unmitigated - and now, it seems, unethical - disaster.

I've been elected for 15 years without so much as a smidgen of a stain on my public record. I'm confident that I've done nothing wrong. Nothing unethical and nothing illegal.

An ethical action, like an unethical action, is usually analyzed by politicians purely in pragmatic terms.

When the sun is sending more energy to earth in one hour than the entire world consumes in a year, any political play to undermine our ability to harness this energy effectively and efficiently is clearly not economical but it's also unethical.

The one thing we can all be sure about in politics is you are as well to expect the unexpected.

Gordon Brown doesn't often spring surprises. He's usually far too cautious to deliver the unexpected.

The Internet allows foreign adversaries to attack America in new and unexpected ways. Free and fair elections are hard-fought and contentious. There will always be adversaries who work to exacerbate domestic differences and try to confuse, divide, and conquer us.

I don't think it's fair to compare Dick Cheney to Vader - it's unfair to Vader.

I mean, the part you don't like, I mean, that's the only part. That's the part no one likes, and that is the criticisms, and the unfair criticisms, I might add, of my husband. But that's also just a fact of life in politics.

That's one of the problems with this country: they put you in a box. You're a Republican, you're a Democrat, you're conservative, you're liberal. And that's really unfair.

There's a rule of thumb in politics. If you're at a point where you're complaining about the other guy being mean and unfair and uncivil, that's probably a sign that you're losing.

All elections revolve around and are often resolved by who raises the most money. That's unfair. I'd like to see that process changed, but it seems once you win and get to Congress, that doesn't happen.

Since all political parties blame the others for the economic mess, it is unfair to attribute unemployment to individual behaviour.

I'd like to run for office someday, but I'm afraid my ability to spell might give me an unfair advantage.

It's a bit unfair to accuse Obama of dividing the nation when the facts show that it already is.

America's grossly unfair tax system won't lead to class war. Or, if it does, the war will be brief.