Quotes About Politics

I'm not interested in a balance of power in order to have power for the Green party. What I'm interested in is the balance of responsibility.

I believed that regardless of political ideologies - the reality was I didn't even have any - which is no excuse, and it's a horrible thing to admit, but I've admitted it - you can't get into something not knowing who the players are, but also not understanding that policy and ethics go together.

I am a Barack Obama fan from head-to-toe - always have been. He's not perfect; nobody is going to be that way.

My message is a simple one - the E.U. is not perfect, but Scotland's interests are best served by being a member.

The Affordable Care Act is not perfect, and I would vote to build on its success while fixing what doesn't work.

Even when we're not talking about Trump, we're talking about Trump.

I'm not trying to get myself up a notch on the ladder by shoving somebody else down on the ladder, whether it's a candidate or the president of the United States or anybody else. I just don't believe that's the way one oughta campaign, I've never done that.

Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.

Attacking me and Fox News is nothing new - it's a cottage industry.

Everyone knows that I have just accepted, with short notice, the worst job in politics.

I think it's very important to always make sure that you're talking to the entire coalition and to as many Americans as possible; not to go chasing after one little group or another. The Democrats would bring new groups into their party and not notice that larger groups are going out the back door.

The Government should be taking notice of the youth of today so much more. They're trying to keep the rich, rich and the poor, poor. If I sat down with David Cameron in a room, I would ask him how he feels about it and what the hell he's doing about it.

For some reason, men in politics seem to have a bunch of charisma, and women drop around their feet. I haven't noticed that so much for me and men.

I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

One of the great cliches of campaign journalism is the notion that American elections have long since ceased to be about issues and ideas.

In many ways, Nixon started the modern notion of 'compassionate conservatism,' which as we all know is neither 'compassionate' nor 'conservative.'

I've never paid attention to politics. I only have the vaguest notion of what the IRA is.

I heard it in 2008 and hear it again now - this notion that the only reason one would support Hillary Clinton is because she is a woman - or only because she is experienced and smart. She is all of those things. But I am with her because... Hillary Clinton inspires me.

The notion of law enforcement as professional, not political, began developing as an aspiration and an ethos even while, in practice, the FBI was the personal fiefdom of J. Edgar Hoover.

The notion of a non-religious Christmas is ridiculous. But so is the insistence on the part of Christians that politicians and retailers carry out their pro-Christmas crusade.

I don't like the notion that artists have a responsibility to be political.

People have a wrong notion that film stars don't make good politicians. I must tell those who address stars with derogatory comments that people like us work for the betterment of their constituency with heart and soul.

Let's cast aside notions of red counties or blue counties and recognize that these are artificial divisions.

In journalism, as in politics, other people's lives are a currency to be bartered on behalf of notoriety and influence.