Quotes About Politics

I - honestly, I don't know of a worse lie one could tell other than a lie to take a country to war. To make up things to take people to war. That's just got to be the most obscene, immoral thing to do.

Our situations... are very different. The nature of our politics is different. I don't deny, though, that political cycles, which are observable in the United States, are sometimes observable here.

I would say that I am an academic in politics. I have never abandoned my academic approach to observe reality, independently from the subject and its constant changes.

For much of my career I had no authentic political voice. I had been campaigning all over the country not to change the world or shake up my audiences but to please the roomful of people to whom I was speaking... As a result, my words rarely had the ring of truth to the nonpolitical observer.

Scottish politics, U.K. politics, is not really like American politics in this respect. Not everybody is absolutely obsessed with image. I'm not saying the United States is obsessed with image.

We must stand firm against the Left's nationalisation obsession.

Ed Miliband should be out and proud about his abstruse interests, his Master's in Economics, his political obsession, his prioritising of the mental over the physical.

Glorious as it had been, the city-state was obsolete.

The D.C. playbook is obsolete. It's time for the people of California to bring the agenda to Washington, not the other way around.

I don't write political music. Political music is immediately obsolete.

Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.

The obstacle for us is not Islam, but the bureaucrats in Brussels.

While we face economic obstacles that challenge every decision made in Washington, decisions made merely for political gain must stop. It's time to restore civility in Congress. It's time for action where action is needed - all politics aside.

We've never been a party to obstruct for obstruction sake.

Especially for NRA members, it was obvious from the get-go that Obama believes he is above any constitutional restraints.

In Britain, the great hidden secret of talking animals and children's literature is how political it was in its bones, beneath the obvious cuteness.

I think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been.

Their failures, both Obama's and Kay Hagan's, are obvious.

It is so obvious that we are constantly monitored and manipulated both in advertising and in politics.

It was obvious after the '97 election that as long as there were two small-c conservative parties trying to destroy each other, the Liberals would win every election.

Obviously, we shouldn't be having any American officeholder or any American candidate looking for foreign nations to come in and be involved in U.S. elections.

As the governor of this state, I obviously see the issue quite differently.

People don't understand it, but the most intense occasions in the House of Commons were the ones I enjoyed most. When events could go either way and you could find yourself out of a job by the end of the day, those were the times when you were most on a high.

During earlier occasions, I was fighting big parties - the BJP, Congress and BSP - and had also to face factional fight within the SP. I had to take on Sonia Gandhi, Mayawati and Azam Khan. I did have the support of Mulayam Singh Yadav though.