Quotes About Politics

People have said to me, 'Oh, you are much nicer making documentaries than you were in politics.' So I should be. If you are making a documentary, you are having fun. You are not under any pressure, normally.

John Major put the 'er' back into Conservative, David Cameron's put the 'Con' into Conservative - and Norman Lamont put the 'vat' into Conservative!

The domestic policy of any president, U.S. or otherwise, is his or her own concern, as long as democratic norms are followed.

My father fled from the North, hating communism.

I don't feel ashamed of my wife's political background, and I don't think she should either. I feel that the people who administered the North of Ireland for the last 20 years should be ashamed. There you are.

There are the countries of the north of Europe taking decisions and the countries of the south of Europe that are living under intervention. This division exists.

We associate the North Atlantic with cod. The motto of Newfoundland used to be 'In cod we trust.' It was a joke, but it was essentially true. But there is no cod anymore. And that's extraordinary. It's all because of either greed or politics - Canadian politics.

North America can easily fragment quickly as did the Eastern Bloc in 1989.

I don't want to have one currency for all North America.

As first lady, Hillary Clinton spent the early months of her husband's administration drafting healthcare-reform legislation, only to see it put on the back burner by the North American Free Trade Agreement.

I'd never get elected if people in North Carolina realized how liberal I am.

North Korea is not an insane nation. It is not a crazy nation.

My real concern is what happens if China becomes the next Cambridge Analytica, what happens if North Korea becomes the next Cambridge Analytica?

There is no way to know for certain what accounts for North Korean decisionmaking, given how closed a country it is.

It was easy for some to jump on the Brexit result and use it to make a land-grab for Northern Ireland, and it was counterproductive.

The reality is that no Brexit deal can be achieved if Northern Ireland is never allowed to leave the Customs Union.

Since the attack on the United States on September 11 2001, and the US retaliation in Afghanistan and Iraq, there must be few people who have not felt a twinge of nostalgia for the cold war.

The Obamas have been a great example for the country, and I think people are getting a bit nostalgic for that now when they see what some of the alternatives might be.

It's not fair for Jewish students to go about their daily lives feeling like they are expected to justify or defend the actions of the state of Israel. It's ridiculous.

One can criticize the Israeli government, but it is not fair to judge the people of Israel.

I'm not interested in being Don Quixote. I'm interested in running the City of New York.

I was not interested in being minister of defense or minister of foreign affairs.

I am not interested in state politics.

I'm not interested in political theater.