Quotes About Politics

People who champion Trump say they don't want politics-as-usual. But 'politic' is also an adjective. It means 'tactful and diplomatic.' It's necessary for an elected official to be politic.

I don't have any particular beef with Barbara Boxer. My beef is with the official Democratic doctrine that anybody who reaches Boxer's position has to spout and has to endorse.

The First Lady is such a fascinating office to hold. You're not elected, but it's very much official. You can see the latitude of power of that office.

I think Dianne Feinstein may be the most Orwellian political official in Washington. It is hard to imagine having a government more secretive than the United States.

I am an elected official; I was not elected by the Right.

I encourage all young people who are interested in government to try and apply to work for a congressman or some other elected official because you get very good experience.

Well, Trump campaign is not an actor. Trump campaign is the official campaign of the president.

I'm hard-wired to view everything that Albany does through the lens of a local town, city, county official.

John Kerry was officially endorsed by Dick Gephardt, and Kerry said, 'What did I ever do to you?'

Do you see Fox News go after Republican officials all the time? No, you almost never see that. You see them do that to Trump administration officials almost never.

We should all laugh more at our elected officials - it's good for us and good for them.

He seems to want confrontation not only with the legislature and with the other elected officials, but he wants constant confrontation in order to be center stage on the television screen.

You know for many elected officials they all started in the same place. You know marriage is between a man and a woman, but they understand that they are moving inevitably, catching up to the American public.

You read constantly that banks are lobbying regulators and elected officials as if this is inappropriate. We don't look at it that way.

Conservatives and companies condoned Rush Limbaugh's politics of personal destruction when it came to smearing elected officials. 'Fair game,' they said, even when crass and crude. That's just the way it is.

Ironically enough, why I got into politics is because I came to the conclusion that if you wanted to save the world, which in my mind was through the environment, those elected officials seemed to be the ones who made a lot of the important decisions, if not the most important decisions.

People should hold elected officials accountable for how they vote. Period.

My job is to advise politicians, elected officials, and government ministries of the best way to deal with important issues, both localized, national, and the grand challenges facing humanity.

When you look at every government, they're our elected officials, and you have to have some form of respect for them.

I do believe that it's very frequent that officials from foreign governments will meet with members of Congress. They will meet with folks associated with campaigns. That's not aberrational here in Washington.

Every time they came to power, the Congress engaged in large scale corruption. Even when they were in power, they did nothing to stop the hoarding of black money in offshore havens.

The Few assume to be the deputies, but they are often only the despoilers of the Many.

Anyone who doesn't agree with the Left's approach to immigration oftentimes gets stigmatized as anti-immigrant or anti-Hispanic.

The second Trump won, I felt super-powerless and I thought, 'Oh my God, no one's looking out for us.'