Quotes About Politics

Everyone on the Left has a favorite story that allows them to kind of excuse Reagan, explain away Reagan, say he was dumb, but unless we reckon with that kind of emotional intelligence and his ability to kind of speak to the aspirations of the American people, the less liberals are going to be able to understand the soul of his appeal.

Trump would represent turmoil - unless he changed, unless he said, 'Now that I got to be president, I'm gonna be normal.'

When it comes to politics, unless it's an issue that's really close to home and you feel strongly about, I just don't think you should really talk about it.

Castro couldn't even go to the bathroom unless the Soviet Union put the nickel in the toilet.

The only result of our present system - unless we reverse the drift - must be the gradual extension of the fascist sector and the gradual disappearance of the system of free enterprise under a free representative government.

D.C.'s a tough place to get love unless you're from D.C. It's like everybody hates you here. The only black person that everyone can agree on is Obama.

Sarah Palin, who with 17 months remaining in her single term as Alaska's governor quit the only serious office she has ever held, is obsessively discussed as a possible candidate in 2012. Why? She is not going to be president and will not be the Republican nominee unless the party wants to lose at least 44 states.

The Dream Act and the DISCLOSE Act, to name two, had majorities in both chambers during Obama's first term, but they were filibustered to death. They probably await a similar fate unless the filibuster is reformed.

I don't think that women should be punished as Donald Trump said they should, for making the decision to have an abortion.

Feminism is a political mistake. Feminism is a mistake made by women's intellect, a mistake which her instinct will recognize.

We must get rid of the habit of classing all women together politically and thinking of the 'woman's vote' as one and indivisible.

If we took away women's right to vote, we'd never have to worry about another Democrat president.

Now we have blacks and whites fighting, reds and yellows fighting, Democrats and Republicans fighting, men and women fighting.

Without the National Federation of Republican Women, there would be no Republican Party.

I've often wished we had more women in the Senate.

Women could get it done...That's why we need more women to run so we have more women in power to make decisions.

The women's movement is filled with tyrants, just as men's political movements are equally filled.

Women are young at politics, but they are old at suffering; soon they will learn that through politics they can prevent some kinds of suffering.

I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.

The National Organization of Women is the national organization of witches.

It will take a long time for women's effect on politics to register so that we may properly appraise it.

[To Bonaparte, when asked why she meddled in politics:] Sire, when women have their heads cut off, it is but just they should know the reason.

I have long believed that women should play a much bigger part in our affairs.

Mercury emissions will continue to harm the environment and to endanger the health of children and pregnant women, until this Administration puts public health before politics.