Quotes About Politics

I want to make sure that ours is a party that is focusing on both middle class issues and not becoming a party of our two coasts.

I really don't think we've become a plutocracy, but I worry about the enormous influence that money has in a democracy such as ours.

Most men think graft a sporadic evil, breaking out here and there, with no connection between outbreaks. I shared the same opinion, but very soon I discovered that the graft in the cities always leads to the graft in the State.

The authority to declare war rests in Congress, not in an out-of-control president.

I am an outcast in the Conservative party. But that's Brexit. It has divided families. The country is divided. This is a huge fault line.

One good outcome of elections is that fresh talent comes into the House of Commons.

We need to dig deep and give people a reason to be optimistic just as Obama is doing in America. Because in the same way that outcome of the U.S. elections will change the course of events there and around the world, so too do politics here in Britain.

A lot of people don't want to vote because they believe the negatives rather than the positives about the outcome of their decisions about the sheriff or councilman or the board of education in their community.

A Brexit with a poor outcome will damage our country and lead to years of further division.

You're guaranteed to have outcomes you like and outcomes you don't like in a democracy.

It seemed to me to be entirely un-kosher, if that's a word, to try to put a debate about war right in front of the midterm to try to affect the midterm outcomes.

The news now continues all night, whether it's politicians and the president using social media, or it might be a major news outlet dropping giant stories at 9, 10 o'clock at night.

David Cameron wants people to believe that his isolation in Europe is a result of Britain being outnumbered when it matters most.

During the Brexit campaign there was a deficit of outrage.

I don't want to be president if I have to win by outrage. I don't want to just win. I want to govern, and not just by executive order.

You can be outraged by what the Koch brothers do with their money in politics and you can appreciate what they contribute to hospitals and medical research, and you can do that at the same time and still retain an ability to function.

As the Right doubles down on anti-anti-Trumpism, it will find itself goaded into defending and rationalizing ever more outrageous conduct just as long as it annoys CNN and the Left.

Trump will never, ever do the right or decent thing, and his consultants certainly won't. He will make outrageous, unsupported claims.

I have always thought, genuinely thought, that elections are like world cups. They sometimes look easier from the outside and they are very difficult when you are in the middle of them.

Every time there's an institutional issue like impeachment, there's concern from the outside about what will happen.

Americans might not want to intervene in the outside world, but the outside world will still want to intervene in America.

Hillary had never run for office before, but she decided to give it a try. She began her campaign the way she always does new things, by listening and and learning. And after a tough battle, New York elected her to the seat once held by another outsider, Robert Kennedy.

In the 1820s, westerners and political outsiders worried that rich men in the east had commandeered the government for their own ends.

I believe that both Obama and Trump would describe themselves as outsiders.