Quotes About Politics

It's just unconscionable that America has become so stupid.

A friend of mine at the American Enterprise Institute says there are two parties: the silly party and the stupid party. I'm too old for the silly party, so I had to join the stupid party.

In the United States I have always believed that there was a big difference between Conservative and stupid. Boy is it getting harder to prove that one by the minute.

The wrong Democratic reaction to a stupid Republican utterance is to play hurt.

Politics goes in one ear and out the other. I don't even know the president's name for sure. That's how stupid I am.

For years, I have been trying to persuade people that George W. Bush, although no Einstein, is not stupid.

But look, you did not have to be well versed in politics to know that some stupid things were going on. It is the counsel's job to stop them, and instead the coverup was created.

George Bush is not stupid. He's evil. OK? There's a huge difference between stupid and evil.

People aren't as stupid as the politicians think. More and more of us are laughing off our 'civic duty' to vote, rejecting the role of compulsory constituent.

I don't want to describe either Governor Mitt Romney or the Republicans as stupid, but I will say this - if you look at their platform, the 2012 platform, it looks like it's from another century and maybe even two. It looks like the platform of 1812.

Again, if I was going to call Romney and the Republicans stupid, I'm certainly not going to call the Democrats and President Obama stupid.

One can be a great poet and be politically stupid.

Stupid people are ruining America.

Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

Much publishing is done through politics, friends, and natural stupidity.

What Democrats call 'nuanced', most people refer to as 'stupidity.'

I would argue further that Barack Obama's election to the presidency of the United States was essentially an American sophistication, a national exercise in seeing what was not there and a refusal to see what was there - all to escape the stigma not of stupidity but of racism.

I think that Mr. Obama is not just inexperienced; he is also hampered by a distinct inner emptiness - not an emptiness that comes from stupidity or a lack of ability but an emptiness that has been actually nurtured and developed as an adaptation to the political world.

I get involved in the political, but I don't bring it to the stage because that's not my style.

I am a Libertarian Republican in the Goldwater style.

Authoritarianism is not pretending anymore to be a real alternative to democracy, but we can see many more authoritarian practices and styles basically being smuggled into democratic governments.

Fashion is a language, and therefore says something about politics, and certain fashion styles get associated with certain political standpoints.

Anna Wintour is the most powerful woman in the global fashion industry, the first lady of fashion. She's a politician; I'm a stylist. They are two very different jobs.