Quotes About Politics

My goal is to help elect not only the first but second woman president. That will be real progress. I believe our next presidential election will see women at the top of the ticket for both parties.

The Democratic Party of California is ready to sponsor me. All I have to do is find the right office to run for.

In the family, no one is ever pushed. I came to politics spontaneously; there was no obligation. It has to happen naturally.

Democracy is not a spectator sport. It is a difficult, hard, full-contact, participatory endeavor.

American politics used to be an amateur sport. But somewhere along the way, we handed over to professionals all the things people used to do for free.

We're different people. Politics and films were an ambition for Arnold, but never for me. But I would say that his contribution in broad-basing the sport can hardly be matched.

Sport allows people to come together, but politics divides people.

I always start my campaigns early, and I run hard. Maybe it comes from the rough-and-tumble world of San Francisco politics, where it's not even a contact sport - it's a blood sport. This is how I am as a candidate. This is how I run campaigns.

Boxing was not the sport that I thought is was due to all the politics.

I hate it when politics play too large part in the sport.

This match is about sport and I separate that completely from politics.

I love this sport and I don't want to get involved in politics.

You know that a given in life in human nature, is that at a sporting event, a baseball game, a football game, you never introduce a politician, is because he'll be booed. I don't care if he's the most beloved person in the world, its part of the game.

A political race today, even a primary, is $150 million. The whole political system has become obscene in terms of the absurd amount of money that is required to compete. Just put it on ESPN and call it a sporting event.

My father was a Republican and my mother was a Democrat. In Michigan, we always fought about sports, not politics.

Compared to politics, I think sports is funnier, because it's inconsequential. And politics can be real important and all that. The more pointless something is, the funnier it is, you know? And the more grave or important things are... You know, some comedians can get this disease where they get serious all the time.

I saw what politics did to the Olympic Games in 1980 and 1984, and I would defend the right of a sportsman to go and play and perform where they want.

The left is back, and it's the only path we have to get out of the spot to which the right has sunken us. Socialism builds and capitalism destroys.

I have a soft spot for Joe Biden. I like him. But he's dumb as an ashtray.

Being Speaker of the House is a really tough spot.

I have a direct line with Obama. It's a crucial link. And I can put Spain in the spotlight.

Being under the political spotlight is far different than anything I'd experienced before. Every word is a critical word. Sometimes you really aren't allowed to get your full thought out. A lot of it is about having a 30-second sound bite.

I want to shine a spotlight on showing how dangerous Trump and his Twitter button can be.

Real Madrid is such an extraordinary club in terms of size and the constant politics that, perhaps, the best results are achieved by those with an ability to remove themselves from the spotlight to concentrate on their work.