Quotes About Politics

I think I am the first person to have made a statement that Narendra Modi should be the Prime Minister of India.

Everything is not a political statement. Everything is not about being an advocate. Sometimes it's just pure entertainment.

'Neechi rajniti' does not mean politics of backward communities. Modi has distorted the statement to link with caste to play backward card for political gains.

I don't know how humble a person can be while consistently spouting statements like 'I, Donald Trump, am a totally gifted politician,' or 'I'm, like, a smart person.'

More Democrats should be speaking without vetting their statements through their staff because it will feel realer.

Everybody in this public arena makes statements and gets interpreted different ways.

Priebus has been trying to clean up for Donald Trump for far too long. When he was making outrageous statements, when he was basically lying.

I don't comment directly on actions or statements of candidates.

I just believe in speaking truth and probably that is why leaders are scared of my statements.

Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.

States are not moral agents.

Let me let you in on a little secret. There is no such thing as an international community. There are self-maximizing, self-interested states that will push their interests as far as possible.

There are those who would say that those who are for two states and dividing Jerusalem are anti-Israel. In that case then, I'm anti-Israel.

The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.

I mean, like a lot of kids growing up in the early seventies, I was fed Dr. Kissinger with my Fruit Loops. He was the Dr. Ruth of American foreign policy, and the model statesman.

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

This country deserves a statesman who can represent the people with proper decorum, respect, and knowledge of what's happening in the world, and I don't believe that Donald Trump represents any of that.

No-one in their right mind would buy the 'New Statesman' and change it from being a left-wing to a right-wing magazine.

The opponents of Mr. Modi can never change the mind of the people who have accepted and adored him as a statesman and national leader.

He has conferred on the practice of vacillation the aura of statesmanship.

I see good ideas on the Republican side as well as the Democratic side. You have to return civility and statesmanship to governance. If you don't do that, it doesn't matter what portfolio of issue you're pushing, nothing is going to get done.

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.

We need a government, not politics. Because there's too much politics. Of course there should be debate. But there seems to be so much pettiness and not enough good faith. It is civilized to agree to disagree, and this idea is slowly disintegrating. The great statesmen of the past knew this, and I think it helps drive civilization.

Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.