Quotes About Politics

You spent a lot of political currency.' 'As Lyndon Johnson said, what good is political currency if you can't spend it?

But when we humans vote for candidates to take away the other guy's benefits—'but keep your fucking hands off my Medicare'—we need to lie to ourselves. It makes us special.

There's no question that history will record that I took a helluva shellacking.

It's always great to have an enemy in politics; there's no question about that.

There is no question that the minority party always makes a sport of going after the governor.

There's no question in my mind that I think I would have been a better president than Barack Obama has been.

There's no question I'm going to do everything within the normal political bounds to make sure we don't nominate Donald Trump.

There's no question that the political is personal.

There is no question of any alliance with the Congress party. The Congress have always neglected the people of Odisha.

There was no reason for a revolution in Paraguay.

There is no reason why I should call myself a democrat.

Black people have no reason to fear political free agency.

There is no reason that billionaires should crowd us out from our democracy.

President Donald Trump has made it very clear he wants to move Canadian jobs to the United States. There's no reason why Justin Trudeau should be helping him.

It is no secret that Hillary Clinton and I disagree on a number of issues.

They don't call him 'No Drama Obama' for nothing. He's even worse than we thought because he has committed the ultimate American crime, worse than anything he has been accused of so far: He has no sense of humor.

I don't think Trevor Noah got his job by being a conservative.

I think politics is an incredibly noble and fulfilling enterprise, and it's the best way to do the most good for the most people.

Because sanitation has so many effects across all aspects of development - it affects education, it affects health, it affects maternal mortality and infant mortality, it affects labor - it's all these things, so it becomes a political football. Nobody has full responsibility.

I don't want to go to Washington to be a co-sponsor of some bland little bill nobody cares about. I don't want to go to Washington to get my name on something that makes small change at the margin.

The noises Russia makes on the world stage are deeply misogynist, homophobic and racist.

We can avoid liberal candidates by filtering them out at the local level, nipping their ascension to power in the proverbial bud by assuring they don't get nominated in the first place - and we can't do that until we infiltrate the party, beginning at the most basic levels.

In a crazy world where he would get nominated, I'd like to see Obama run against Herman Cain. That would be fantastic. If Herman Cain became president, there'd be a certain sort of morbid curiosity for me.

My party has historically nominated someone who's a mainstream conservative.