Quotes About Politics

My grandmother taught me, you believe in a politician, you get out there and work for them. So, that's what I've been doing.

I'd rather work with a grassroots organization than in politics. I'm not sure I'd be the best politician because I don't think I'm good about tactfully tiptoeing around questions in the right way.

Government should work to insure the rights of the individual, not plot to take them away.

You've got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you've got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote.

Political work is the life-blood of all economic work.

[Rex Tillerson] is gonna continue to work on [sanctions lifting]. This is important for him. He was there [in White House] because he negotiated the deal for Exxon with [Vladimir] Putin.

Sure, things could always have been done better, but I just wish people would drop their political hammers for a few weeks, as happened in 2001, and work on the problem at hand

The biggest threat to this country isn't the Russians. It's our own inability to make democracy or capitalism work.

If you are truly on the left, if you reject ideas of power and hierarchy, what you want is equality. Otherwise, it won't work at all.

I think the American public has gone from really almost white-hot anger in 2010 to an anxiety knowing their government needs to work.

Every day, I come home with a spring in my step. We've got to work together to stop the Obama agenda and take this country back.

I am not political. It is not my job. But I would be happy if politicians could read my work and draw some conclusions from it.

[The British constitution] presumes more boldly than any other the good sense and the good faith of those who work it.

To be serious, if we were only interested in earning big money then a politician would have to go and work in industry.

My work is drawn to the political but avoids an agenda. There is no inherent critique or support.

You've got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.

Hanging out with politicians and corporations is very unhip work. But I think that the U2 audience have turned out to be incredibly subtle in their understanding.

A one-hour work-week...would minimize the damage that Congress can do.

We need to remind politicians they don't work for the big banks - they work for us.

Congress is unable to do the work of the American people because too many politicians believe that compromise means capitulation.

I say let Matteo Renzi work. He took over a country that was in disarray, not florid. And not the other way around.

These are the rules of big business...Get a monopoly; let society work for you; and remember that the best of all business is politics.

Diplomacy can be a frustrating thing. I think the strategy can work, so long as the force is robust and the rules of engagement are clear.

Capitalism is a great idea in theory, but in practice it just doesn't work.