Quotes About Politics

Obama tried to make deals with Republicans, and I don't think he realized he'd have such an insanely opposing Congress.

In 2014, we were opposing President Xi Jinping. Five years later, we are opposing Emperor Xi Jinping.

I've been around Congress long enough to know there are issues we may never see eye-to-eye from the opposite aisle, but we should all agree that our job is to move America forward and benefit the people.

Art removes boundaries and makes the world brighter. It is the common language for people all over the world. But politics are the opposite completely. Politicians, their very meaning is based on the lines they draw.

Christianity has not conquered nationalism; the opposite has been the case nationalism has made Christianity its footstool.

Usually, whatever people's particular political leaning is, they either think I'm just like them or the opposite.

I just feel abandoned. And I feel, I don't feel represented by the Republican Party. I have always had to defend the social side of the Republican Party by saying that it's not the majority, that it's not their focus, when everything suggests just the opposite.

I was raised as a Christian, where all you're taught is to be humble, even if you did something right. Politics is the complete opposite of: you do something a little nice, and you tell everyone.

I haven't been in Washington long, but I have learned that it is a place filled with people who say one thing to get elected and do the opposite once they get there.

In our system of government, an opposition party doesn't have the ability to pass legislation, but it has the ability to massively screw things up.

It's our job as Liberal Democrats to be an effective opposition - and an increasingly tough one as well.

I do think a healthy opposition is very necessary in a democracy.

Almost everything I think we've accomplished for the good of the country has been because of liberals against conservative opposition.

So, I think China desperately needs to legitimize some form of opposition.

When you are in the government, you have to demonise your opposition.

One of my favorite things - and I am sure everybody else's in this Chamber - is to give away money. You really don't get much opposition when you give away money.

We in the Labour party know better than most that opposition is the easy part. What's more difficult is governing and setting out an agenda for government.

Congress becomes the public voice of opposition.

In opposition, you move to the centre. In government, you move the centre.

I will go to the next election saying to Australians, vote for me, vote for the Liberal Party, and I will become your PM. So I'm offering myself as the alternative PM - that's one way people describe the Leader of the Opposition - but I'm not in politics for myself to realize a personal ambition.

In Washington, particularly, the loyal opposition has a job to be the opposition. But you can't stop there.

My general approach to opposition is where the government is getting something right, we should say so. And where we disagree with them, we should say so, too.

I was forced to come into politics because Saakashvili had destroyed the opposition. I had a choice either to leave the country, because it was dangerous to live here, or to go into politics.

I think the Democratic Party has to learn how to be a party of opposition.