Quotes About Politics

We shouldn't leave the work of politics to people who run for public office.

When are people going to learn? Democracy doesn't work.

According to a survey in this week's Time magazine, 85% of Americans think global warming is happening. The other 15% work for the White House.

Bloomberg is famously impatient with beltway politics and believes that to get anything done you need to work from the ground up.

Occasionally [Donald Trump] says things that are too strong and upsets people, and I think he'll work to do better on that.

I think that Minnesota is different because we are proving that tri-partisan government could work, that you do not need to necessarily be a Democrat or a Republican to be successful at governing.

Whether you work in news, sport, politics, whatever, it's exactly the same; a story is a story, is a story. I consider myself first and foremost a journalist.

It wasn't the first time. This happened to Dennis Kucinich. It happened to Jesse Jackson. They did it even to Howard Dean, creating the Dean scream. This is how they [democrats] work.

Frankly, if independents and Democrats want to work with us on conservative ideas, I can do that better at Heritage than as a partisan inside.

The corporations own the elections and they're manipulating the masses. We have to come up with a new system, because this one is broken. That's why I work very hard to create new patterns.

I hope President-elect Trump will work with me and with the rest of the Senate to try to keep more jobs here in America.

If a poet would work politically, he must give himself up to a party; and so soon as he does that, he is lost as a poet.

I don't believe in political strategies. I believe only to do good for the people.

I first met Mr. Trump in August of 2016 during which we specifically spoke about everything made in America, bringing jobs back to the U.S. and strategies for reviving the inner cities. I realized right then he would be the best president ever.

Donald Trump could win the presidency without a popular-vote majority only because both parties have been locked into base-turnout strategies that are partially responsible for our government's ineffectiveness and gridlock.

Here's the deal: when conservatives lose elections, they change their strategy. When liberals lose elections, they want to change the rules.

The Israelis are very smart about politics and strategy, but there are a few exceptions. One is Lebanon, the other is Gaza, where they were completely inept.

I do think the strategy of Trump, and now the Republican Party, is to eviscerate the idea of objective truth.

If you're a Democrat and 'The New York Times' is calling for your head, you know it's time for an exit strategy.

Acting is fun and I refuse to get involved in the semantics and the politics of strategy and breaking out of something or doing something because you need to do something else. For me it's all about what fuels my soul and if I'm passionate about a screenplay then that's what I'll do next.

Securing the Republican nomination is an intricate series of steps that requires a comprehensive strategy.

The electoral strategy for 2016 was, 'Vote for me; I'm not Trump,' and, 'Trump is dangerous, so get out and vote.'

Much of Mr. Bush's 28 percent approval rating is born not of 'failed policies' - of which there are many - but of the ill-gotten gains pilfered from a pre-Bush inauguration strategy to send the message to Republicans that the Democrats play politics harder and better.

The strategy of any party would be to see how best it can defeat the party in power.