Quotes About Politics

The life of millions is my politics, from which I dare not free myself without denying my life-work and God.

My view is, Democrat, Republican, it doesn't matter, my view is I'm in Washington to try to work with people.

I've done work for both Democrats and Republicans.

If the great Western experiment fails and we end up living in totalitarian war-on-terrorism states, one day someone's going to say, 'Well democracy doesn't work because they had to give it up'.

Everyone seems to be running against a liar, but nobody seems to be one. Odd - I mean, the math doesn't work out.

I have made on occasion posters and things like that for political reasons but not my work.

America's going to come back, and for that to happen, we're going to have to have a president who can work across the aisle.

Washington is broken. I know what it takes to get this country back, and will work with good Democrats and good Republicans to do that.

The nation, as you know, is at a critical point. At a time like this we can't risk partisan bickering and political posturing. Our leaders have to reach across the aisle to do the people's work.

The interesting artists I know are the ones doing political work. The most interesting people I know are the people who care about politics.

The reason I am a political radical is that I work on syntax. If I worked on semantics (which in fact I do), I'd be a good Thatcherite.

You have to love that government, but hate the government that might work in your interest and that you could control. That's an interesting propaganda task, but it's been carried out very well.

It's the squares who know how to fly the fighter planes and operate the missiles and the bombs and work the M-16s. Liberals would still be fumbling with the federally mandated trigger locks.

The question nowadays is not what makes government work. The question is how do we make it stop.

I think we can work through a lot of political and international problems, but what really frightens me is what's happening environmentally.

Donald Trump will lead a unified Republican government. And we will work hand-in- hand on a positive agenda to tackle America's big challenges.

It takes two things to make a political lie work: a powerful person or institution willing to utter it, and another set of powerful institutions to amplify it.

I don't think Obama understands basic economics. Not economics that work. He may understand some theory that someone in Princeton sat and dreamed up, but it's not working.

Someday a political genius will come along and make the Senate work.

There is a pressing need to integrate the study of international economics with the study of international politics to deepen our comprehension of the forces at work in the world.

The bill's a textbook example of special interest pork barrel politics at work, and I have no choice but to veto it.

The more people that are out of work, the better for the Democrat Party. I know you might snicker at that, but it's the damn truth.

I want Obama to have to weigh in on Ben Affleck as Batman. It's about time Obama went to work.

Obama's not ultimately gonna get away with totally destroying America. His damage already done is brutal and he's gonna do more and we're gonna have an incredible amount of hard work ahead of us.