Quotes About Politics

I am very happy to be nominated by the Congress party to contest the Lok Sabha elections.

My nomination to be Governor was not to gratify ambition.

By definition, the person who learns enough to become the nominee is almost certainly the best person for the general election.

Do not tell somebody how to vote, just go up to them and tell them what Fahrenheit 9/11 meant to you. Fahrenheit will probably not win an Academy Award, but if you put it first on your list, it will become a nominee.

I am going to certainly endorse the Republican nominee, and obviously it looks like that will be Mr. Trump.

A person like Donald Trump, who has said what he's said about Muslims, Mexicans, women, George Bush, John McCain - a person like that should not be the nominee of our party or be the president, and I will campaign for an alternative to Donald Trump until that avenue is no longer open.

I went and campaigned for Ken Cuccinelli and did a fund-raiser for Ken Cuccinelli. He's not from my faction of the Republican Party, but you know what? When the nominee is chosen, we have got to come together, or we will never lead.

I will never be able to endorse a nominee for president whose name is not known.

A lot of factors go into choosing a vice-presidential nominee.

Any nominee is going to have to earn my support.

Anybody who doesn't support the Republican nominee... is a RINO.

I think that if the Democratic Party focuses on nominating who will make the best president, that's going to be a critical mistake. There's only one question at the end of the day, and that question is, Can the potential nominee beat Donald Trump?

Granted, I'm more interested in technology than most people, and less interested in politics than most. But I don't like to think about categories. I really see myself as a general non-fiction writer.

None of us and none of the Arabs trust Israel.

I'm a dual citizen in a way. I live in the States and have a green card, so my connection to British politics is almost nonexistent.

Although we can talk about an Indonesian democracy, or we can talk about democratic elections and democratic rituals - the trappings of democracy - we can't genuinely talk about democracy in Indonesia because there is not rule of law, and democracy without rule of law is a nonsense.

On the Left, the best and brightest go into politics - Barack Obama is the epitome of the perfect leftist. On the Right, the best and brightest go make money. Very few conservatives want to endure all the nonsense you have to put up with to run for office.

I liked singing, but I didn't like all the politics and nonsense that went with it.

Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.

Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Bablyon and evil as Hell.

When folks say 'identity politics' don't matter, it simply reinforces the norm of a white, middle-class, cis narrative and further marginalizes the rest of us who don't share that identity.

I am not joining politics. I don't intend to contest election. I am happy to be back to doing normal things, be it films or other work.

Normally, I stay away from politics - unless I'm going to run for president.

I normally don't endorse in Democratic primaries.