Quotes About Politics

Listen, I, I did vote - I did cast a vote for health care, and I also said that I thought the process was horrible. The status quo before we passed health care was also horrible.

The Democratic Party is the party of the status quo.

Our politicians may fail us, but Status Quo always delivers on the promise.

We absolutely have to change the status quo in Washington.

The status quo is not working, and I believe that Donald Trump is going to be a phenomenal president.

It's hard in today's society to have a discussion where you want to challenge the status quo because of the 'I gotcha' politics.

No one went to the ballot box to vote for something worse than the status quo.

I've been a staunch Republican.

For a lot of people, groups, Christians included, issues are homogenized. And so to be a Christian, I'm either this staunch, conservative Republican, or I'm this tree-hugging liberal. You're stereotyped. It's almost assumed that people know what your issues are going to be.

When you are a politician, it means to work for the benefit of the country, not to stay home. In politics, it ends only when one dies.

Democrats hate stay-at-home spouses, no matter what gender or gender preference.

The candidate out front on Labor Day has historically been the one who stayed ahead in November.

One of the things I'm proudest of, one year on my refrigerator, I taped a Christmas card from the Republican National Committee and season's greetings from Gus Hall of the American Communist Party. They both stayed up their months and I'm proud of it.

I have always stayed out of politics, I don't believe it would be appropriate to talk about it.

My father was convinced, I think rightly, that if he stayed in Russia, he would have trouble with Lenin.

I didn't realize I wanted to write about D.C. until after 2000. Even though I was a comedy writer, I stayed away from that subject on purpose. It took attaining some distance and perspective.

I was sent to Russia in 1994 by the Clinton administration to meddle in Russian elections and stayed seven years doing it.

Just by making a decision to stay out of politics, you are making the decision to allow others to shape politics and exert power over you. And if you are alienated from the current political system, then just by staying out of it, if you do nothing to change it, you simply entrench it.

Sacrifice is putting country before party and principles before politics. It is not defending the indefensible, protecting the powerful, or staying silent in the face of injustice just because you'd like to keep your job.

Staying in a very public fight with the U.S. is exactly what Al Qaeda wants.

The biggest risk to Quebec isn't sovereignty. It is staying in Canada.

I think a lot of people start out full of idealism and fresh ideas. And then a lot of times, being re-elected becomes more important than staying true to your principles.

I cannot conceive of circumstances where Labour MPs are marshalled to go through the lobby to vote against us staying in the single market and customs union with the likes of Jacob Rees Mogg, Boris Johnson and Michael Gove.

I am an actor first and foremost. Even without my involvement in politics, I was staying away from sub-standard work.