Quotes About Politics

The right seeks political victory at the ballot box - and that's just the way it's been. It's a bit cliched to say but the right, conservatives, work. They have jobs.

Donald Trump said - as a show of good faith - he was gonna work with people to try to replace Obamacare, to repeal and replace it rather than just to let it implode, let it fail.

All it takes is Harry Reid saying a friend told him [Mitt] Romney hadn't paid his taxes in ten years and it's over. But these kinds of things aren't gonna work on [Donald] Trump.

Honestly, acting is the most work when you're unemployed. For me, the actual acting part is never hard. It's the politics and basically everything around the acting that is difficult.

Enough of this foreign fiasco distraction. Get back to work. It is time to bomb Obamacare.

So how's that hopey changey stuff working out for ya?

Paul Ryan I don't think wants to work. I think Paul Ryan wants the status quo, and I think Paul Ryan is a Never Trumper.

Sometimes people try to give me advice going forward, and they say, "You know, you've just got to work to be more likeable in Washington." And I laugh and say, "You know this isn't rocket science.

The first duty of an American citizen, then, is that he shall work in politics.

Never, never, you must never either of you remind a man at work on a political job that he may be President.

As much as we may have to battle against a Trump presidency, there's still good relationships within the Senate, bipartisan relationships where we can work together.

If you're going to make sense of politics you have to have a historical perspective and also recognise that you have to work with people you don't agree with.

We're going to prevent politics from abusing the parliament and going off playing politics around the country when they should be here at work.

Constitutional democracy has created astonishing and apparently irreversible social progress. All we're interested in is talking about when government doesn't work.

I'm not really much into politics, because it's rarely discussed in my line of work, but I know that Barack Obama is trying his best, and that at some point down the road, he's going to get it right.

I tremendously admire, and I think we all should, the great work done by our commander in chief, our president George Bush...

If everyone has to be a watchdog in order to make government work, then the foxes will also volunteer to serve.

The conservative Republican governors tend to be more oriented toward trying to work with Democrats and getting things done.

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war.

Bureaucrats and Politicians are different people, work of Bureaucrats makes us hate Politicians.

I owed it to my father that I was elected to Parliament in the first place, but I owed it to my mother that I stuck it out once I got there.

I never thought I would become an actress. I always wanted to get into politics, and I moved to Argentina and worked for the U.S. embassy for a bit. It sort of happened upon me when I was home for the holiday - acting, that is - and I stuck with it.

When the Republicans controlled the House from 1994 -2006, Democrats like Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank, Henry Waxman Charlie Rangel, John Conyers and Rahm Emanuel weren't saying we need to move right to win. They stuck to their philosophy. And they fought against Reagan and they fought against the Bushes. And eventually they did win.

Despite support from a majority of Americans, a majority of the House of Representatives, and a majority of the Senate, Keystone XL is stuck - stalled by special-interest politics.