Quotes About Politics

John Kerry, who says he doesn't like outsourcing, wants to outsource our national security.

If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me.

I don't understand why, to rise to the level of being president of my country, one has to be a monster. I used to say that George Bush was defiling the Oval Office, but it's been held by a long line of monsters. We don't have to support our administrations to love our country.

At least since 1947, the historical record seems to support a simple conclusion: If you want the American economy to grow, you ought to put a Democrat in the Oval Office.

Caricatures created by politics never fit comfortably into the Oval Office.

When choosing the president of the United States and the leader of the free world, your desire to have a beer with a candidate should be your last concern. Let's keep our president in the Oval Office and out of the bars.

There is nowhere I encounter greater understanding for Israel's existential issues than in the Oval Office.

National security looks different from the Oval Office than it does from a hotel room in Iowa.

My friend told me later he got the chicken pox. I told him I caught politics and never got over it.

Real politics should work for the long-term and overall interests of the community.

I find the Democratic party overall, on a macro level, to be institutionally corrupt.

In politics, they play games. In Hollywood, they play games. I think that, overall, everybody is trying to do whatever it takes to get ahead.

We're very good at talking about the individual in American politics and excellent at talking about the government. But we have little ability to even acknowledge everything that exists in the middle, and given how influential politics is on every other part of our life, I think that failure of discourse is pretty corrosive to our overall culture.

The biggest accomplishment, in racial terms, for Barack Obama was being elected. He had to overcome his blackness to be elected. He climbed the Mt. Everest of American politics, becoming an historic first.

For Italy, sanctions are never an end; they are an instrument that must be overcome as soon as possible.

In politics, exhaustion and attrition need to be overcome, not indulged.

Human life is fragile, and the threat posed to individuals in politics cannot be overlooked.

Parties don't lose overnight, there is a gradual erosion of their base and electoral machine, which leads to sometimes cataclysmic defeat.

When I see the crumbling roads and bridges, or the dilapidated airports, or the factories moving overseas to Mexico, or to other countries, I know these problems can all be fixed, but not by Hillary Clinton - only by me.

I'm for making sure Americans get jobs before other people do, and I'm not going to let jobs get outsourced overseas, like Romney let happen.

Climate change has completely overshadowed the conservation concerns that used to be so important to the Democratic Party.

Paradoxically, resource-rich developing countries are often worse off than comparable countries that lack those resources. One reason for this is that large resource endowments provide a huge financial incentive for attempts to overthrow the government and seize power.

After the 1960s and '70s, there were real doubts about whether a mortal man could handle the country's highest office. It had destroyed Johnson, corrupted Nixon, and overwhelmed Ford and Carter.

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