Quotes About Politics

There are people on staff who have made that point, that the upside to a second Bush term is that it makes 'American Dad' work better. To me, the price is too high. I would gladly give up the comedy to have a President Kerry. But you work with what you have.

We need to be politically engaged, but peculiar in how we engage. Jesus and the early Christians had a marvelous political imagination. They turned all the presumptions and ideas of power and blessing upside down.

It seems to me an indictment of the Republican Party that if you talk about issues of poverty and upward mobility, people assume you're a Democrat.

Democrats do best in urban centers, Republicans in outer suburbs and rural areas.

People tend to see all black congressmen as liberals with an urban twist: They're all for gun control and against the death penalty. It's not true, and it shouldn't be true.

My government's pro-women initiatives, starting from Mission Shakti to Mamata, along with 50% reservations for women in the panchayat and urban local body polls have helped empower women in political, social, and economic spheres.

I happen to be unique. I'm a Republican that represents an urban area.

How does he support Clinton's urban agenda? He doesn't know what it is.

The methodologies of examining hip hop are borrowed from sociology, politics, religion, economics, urban studies, journalism, communications theory, American studies, transatlantic studies, black studies, history, musicology, comparative literature, English, linguistics, and other disciplines.

I think there's no question that Michael Jackson was the foremost entertainer of his generation; perhaps of all time, arguably, taking the skills of a Sammy Davis, Jr., bringing together the street dance of African American urban culture, joining them to the politics of dance, of Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly on that sphere alone.

The separation of church and state is a suburban, not an urban, issue.

There's always been something deeply disturbing about the Abbott government's attitude to women.

All women, whatever be their position, should demand political equality as a means of a freer life, and one calculated to yield rich blessings to society.

My pledge to you is that the SNP will put women and gender equality right at the heart of the Westminster agenda.

It is Republicans that have led the fight for women's equality. Go back through history and look at who was the first woman to ever vote, elected to office, go to Congress.

I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of the men who are already there.

Research shows that when women are empowered as political leaders, countries often experience higher standards of living with positive developments in education, infrastructure, and health care.

When I first ran, being a woman in politics was seen as both a negative and also a positive. You could attract more women voters, but on the other hand, a lot of men wouldn't vote for you.

We are naive and moralistic women. We are human beings who find politics a blight upon the human condition. And do not know how one copes with it except through politics.

We have to ask ourselves why younger women don't feel the need to be right up front with their politics. Is that going to set us back or is that itself a sign of progress? I don't know the answer.

Our job as Americans and as Republicans is to dislodge the traitors from every place where they've been sent to do their traitorous work.

Democrats work to help people who need help. That other party, they work for people who don't need help. That's all there is to it.

Others say that that's not good for the country [to resist Donald's Trump ] and that they should work with this new administration on policies.

We shall together open the doors of good politics and will work without indulging in political untouchability.