Quotes About Politics

This year, we are going to take our government out of the hands of corporate special interests and put it back into the hands of Ohio families - where it belongs.

I'm very happy where I am: I'm a senator from Ohio.

Even arch-isolationists, such as former President Herbert Hoover and Senator Robert Taft of Ohio - two of the most right-wing figures in the Republican Party - insisted on being called liberal.

Working families in Ohio have been hurt badly. It started really with the Bush years.

All you have to do is come to Ohio and say, 'I think NAFTA is a lousy deal,' and everybody cheers.

I was sent to Washington by the people of the state of Ohio. We have a diverse state. I am advocate and a fighter for this state.

I'm running for president because I've had enough of the oil barons, the status-quo apologists, the special-interest lobbyists running amok.

Iraq is not about oil.

Let's make Marco Rubio explain why he thinks oil companies should write our energy policy.

So when you go up against the Far Right you go up against the big financial special interests like the Halliburtons of the world, the big oil companies, the big energy companies who work so hard to rip us off.

It's OK to not be political unless your country is falling apart.

Everybody in this race is against Obama, okay? So saying you're against Obama, against Obamacare, all the rest, it's all fine, well and good, except it doesn't move you forward.

It's not okay to lie about people and particularly not okay to hurl the worst imaginable names at people just because you think you might not like their politics.

When everybody goes into their separate corners, it's just real easy to demonize the other side instead of saying, 'Okay, how can we come together and figure out how to get done what's important for the country?'

I believe in that old adage that 'as goes California, so goes the country.'

In the old days, the media is who held people accountable when they lied in politics. That isn't happening anymore.

I know why politicians want to go on TV: that's where really old people are. And old people vote.

It's wrong to put the drug lobby's interests ahead of older Americans.

I have dealt with a pretty interesting mix of young people, many of whom have never been involved in any form of politics at any level who are interested in alternatives to austerity and debt, and older people who left the Labour party, mainly over Iraq, who are coming back in.

I've got a great relationship with my oldest grandson because we go to political meetings and lectures, which I love.

When I was in college in the late 80s-early 90s, there was a sense that history was on a straight path toward democracy everywhere. Well, that's not true. It was also not true that there's a single era of oligarchy, because we showed we could do something about it.

Olivia Chow is no Jack Layton.

There was a lot of politics going on, and Ireland were denied an Olympic gold medal in 2008.

The Olympics brought a lot of development to Beijing, but I don't see that there have been any changes to human rights as a result of the Olympics.