Quotes About Politics

I left Russia in 1993 optimistic that democracy had taken hold despite the obstacles.

In politics, you also have to be cautiously optimistic.

To be a member of the Labor Party is to be an optimist - optimistic about the future of Australia, optimistic about the ability of government to make a difference.

Back when I was an Islamist, I thought our ideology was like communism - and I still do. That makes me optimistic. Because what happened to communism? It was discredited as an idea. It lost.

I think one of the laughable things about poor old Brexit is that they're so cross - they're furious with everyone. But this isn't a cross country; this is a generous and optimistic country.

I never considered politics as an option, not ever.

When we look at the majority of the American people, when they believe that their leadership is letting them down, there is only one option out there for us, and that's to change that leadership.

If you lease a part of your soul in a campaign, Washington, D.C., and the establishment... will think they have an option to buy.

Orange County is a place where you can ask people if that's their real hair color; you can ask them if that diamond is real; you can ask if that car is a lease. But you cannot ask if someone is a Democrat.

Modi is a great orator.

Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.

Politics is about maintaining a framework for ordered liberty so that people can live in the neighborhoods and the communities that they live in.

You'll be glad to know that I'm not taking my marching orders from the Democrats.

It is Cameron's cabinet of millionaires who are the real spongers given free rein to live out their Thatcherite fantasies at the expense of ordinary, decent communities throughout these islands.

Ordinary people want good government.

There is little or no point being chair of the Labour Party and being ignored when engaging with Labour ministers when you're trying to articulate something that affects ordinary people in society.

I wish there were a healthier Republican Party in the state of Oregon.

I never thought Oregon would elect to the U.S. Senate a Mormon, but it did.

My husband is in politics and my kids are already a campaign organ for him and I really love being their mother.

I think the Conservative Party is a fantastic organisation, it's been a wonderful home for me.

In politics, during my organisational roles, I have never seen gender bias within my organisation.

The Clintons are one of the most closed political organisations operating in America today. It is a kind of secret society.

I tend to be a bit of a proselytiser for the importance of royal courts, but all politics - in fact every form of human organisation, and this is something that's so dreadful for all those brought up in the 60s - naturally reverts to monarchy. Newspapers have editors, companies have chief executives.

I joined the Communist Party because I felt I had to be in some organization.