Quotes About Politics

Slavery in New Hampshire was never legally abolished, unless Abraham Lincoln did it. The State itself has not ever pronounced any emancipation edict.

Getting elected as a Republican in Massachusetts is very, very different from being elected as a Republican in New Hampshire.

Didn't George Washington say, 'He who controls Afghanistan will carry New Jersey?'

As I climbed the electoral ladder - from state assemblyman to mayor of Woodbridge and finally to governor of New Jersey - political compromises came easy to me because I'd learned how to keep a part of myself innocent of them.

I don't want to be the mayor of New Jersey.

My first job in journalism was covering politics in New Jersey.

Thanks to my new job, I got a front row seat. I crossed the country covering the race, first between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama and then between Obama and McCain. It was the political story of a lifetime.

Getting elected Governor of New Mexico, I really did enjoy that job. I thought I made a really big difference, and I think the same running for president of the United States - that I could make a really big, positive difference.

Whenever the Republicans have an opportunity, they've tried to make New Mexico into a right-to-work state, and so I've been on the front lines fighting that for a long time.

It would be nice if every state were like New Mexico and cared about the Indian vote.

I'm the most independent and conservative Democrat in New York State.

The Democrats in the Senate adopted a resolution, an amendment, saying that there should be no Guantanamo detainees brought into this country. So, more and more, we're finding the American people on one side, the ACLU and the troglodytes from the New York Times on the other, where they belong.

When you've written 10 books and have six on the New York Times best-seller list - and four have been No. 1 - I think you have a right to be a member of Congress.

I think Hillary Clinton is going to do very well in New York, because there's one basic advantage. New Yorkers know Hillary Clinton. She was here for senator. We've seen her work. We've seen her performance.

New Yorkers have an intimacy with Trump, man. I mean, for decades.

There is always some criticism. Tell me one thing that Narendra Modi does and you don't criticise. If he gives a chance to newcomers, you say he forgot the old guard; if he gives a chance to an incumbent, you say Modi doesn't give a chance to young leaders.

I've been on MSNBC and CNN and Fox News. Not just Fox News, not just CNN.

There's no such thing as good news in America.

God, George Bush makes me want to slash my wrists. He's so embarrassing I have to leave the room when he's on the news. What a monkey.

I feel like the Left wants to destroy Fox News.

I was a Great Society liberal on domestic issues. People ask me, 'How do you go from Walter Mondale to Fox News?' The answer is, 'I was young once.' End of answer.

Fox News is garbage.

'The Daily Show,' at its core, is the answer to the nightly news.

In that sense, when a Bush or a Gore, or whomever, goes on David Letterman, that's the news, too.