Quotes About Politics

I'm definitely a centrist and feel like both parties can be absurd.

I can't understand why the Democratic parties seem so hostile to economic growth and business.

If the 1992 and 2000 elections were any guide, third-party candidates are death on the mainstream parties with which they're most naturally aligned.

We do live in an environment of crony capitalism, and the main reason we do is that loopholes are for sale, and both parties have their hands out through those loopholes.

I haven't chosen any party yet because people choose parties when they get older. When it's time, I'll look, and if I can't find one to join, I'll make another party.

BJP is a national party which runs the central government, and if I can take a decision on the future of all these parties, I must be a capable person. I am grateful that everybody is accepting my capability.

Parties that win elections should form the government, not parties that lose elections.

I believe any time that both parties are talking, it's a good thing.

Even before the missteps that I've had, I was never going to run for office. My family is adamantly opposed to it, and frankly, my politics don't necessarily work for the primaries of either of our parties.

If politicians of both parties would spend more time legislating and less time attacking each other, we would all be better off.

This isn't a Republican issue. This isn't a Democrat issue. This is something that both parties and people around the country have agreed to. They don't want Guantanamo Bay detainees in the United States.

Federalists, Whigs, Democratic-Republicans; parties are born, parties die, and parties realign themselves to adapt to shifting demographics and attitudes.

Major realigning events can reshape coalitions and change how large groups of people view politics, policy, and the parties.

Governments should encourage and facilitate the teaching of history, but one does not want them to be able to dictate, for political or partisan reasons, what kind of history and interpretations are on offer to children.

We need to get away from labels. That's the way people talk in Washington, D.C. - through labels, through ideological frames, through partisan frames.

I am not as partisan as people think I am.

We need elected officials who overcome partisan politics to really help people.

I am not pollyannaish about the deep partisan battles that divide us.

I have also come to understand Congress' need for a bipartisan as well as a partisan capacity.

There's no such thing as a partisan base.

When it's for the good of your state, you put partisan differences aside.

Making government more efficient and more effective need not be a partisan issue.

At its worst, Washington is a place where name-calling partisan politics too often trumps policy.

In the old way of doing business, it was fine to disagree and then go to dinner. Now it's personal and more partisan, and a disagreement on one issue leads to a disagreement on another issue.