Quotes About Politics

Today's Russia is not to be compared with the Soviet Union of back then.

Well, look, let me put it this way. Back in 2005, when I was a freshman, I - I was the first Democrat to support CAFTA. My labor union folks made me their number-one target. They came after me, and I'm still here.

My opponent called me a cream puff. Well, I rushed out and got the baker's union to endorse me.

It is because of me that today the union government has sanctioned special funds for the development of Bihar.

In fact, corporate and union moneys go overwhelmingly to incumbents, so limiting that money, as Congress did in the campaign finance law, may be the single most self-denying thing that Congress has ever done.

I am sure future historians will say the biggest and most astonishing change in politics has been the embracing of all the tenets of Thatcherism by the party of Keir Hardie: trade union legislation, Europe, the replacement of Trident, 10 per cent tax for people who have made millions from their companies.

My father got a trade union scholarship to Oxford; he lived and breathed politics; he was always watching current-affairs programmes. But I have a five-year-old child's attitude towards the news. Mainly, that it absolutely turns me off.

I have lived in Toledo, Ohio, off and on throughout my entire life, and I have plenty of friends who are union members. Sometimes we agree politically and sometimes not, but it has never kept us from being friends.

I see a direct line between Kennedy and Richard Nixon and the opening to China and the detente with the Soviet Union.

Not all Republicans are rich, dress in three-piece suits, and have $200 haircuts. I'm somebody who's lived from paycheck to paycheck. I'm focusing on my blue-collar roots - I've worked side by side with union people.

How many State of the Union addresses do people remember? They don't resonate that way.

We would like Serbia to become a member of the European Union as quickly as possible.

The Soviet Union was a one-party state. In such states, enemies of the party become enemies of the state, and the state can punish with full weight of prosecution.

The next leader of this country needs to be someone who believes heart and soul that Britain should be outside the European Union.

Scottish nationalism has grown since we entered the European Union.

Making promises and then saddling yourself with a political system and a political union that means that you cannot deliver those promises, I fear, doesn't contribute to an atmosphere of trust and confidence in politics.

What's a fact is that we give more than £350 million to the European Union and hand over control of that money to the European Union every week.

In 26 years of delivering babies, I've always been interested in government and the state of the union.

It's humiliating for Barack Obama and, therefore, the United States to have American sailors held hostage during his final State of the Union.

A U.K. vote to exit the European Union could have significant economic repercussions.

Brexit has really broken a taboo. The Brits have shown us that you can leave the European Union, and you can come out better.

To restore our public schools, we must put an end to the selfish agenda of the union bosses.

The shelf life of a seventh-year State of the Union address is about five minutes. Presidents can propose stuff. They're probably not likely to get it done.

When you're brought up in a Unionist culture, you can't help but feel Unionist.