Quotes About Politics

Yes, you need substance in politics - but I think your style also says something about how you arrive at some of your conclusions.

Whether McCain actively sought Palin in 2008 or passively yielded to aides' pressure, he set a new standard for GOP candidates who rely on lots of sizzle and little substance.

Senator Gillibrand is good at saying things that sound nice but have little substance. I don't think we elect our public officials to avoid taking a stand or a difficult position on anything.

The Left puts their stock in substance and lives on identity and figureheads. It will be the end of the Right to do the same.

I think the best campaigns are campaigns of ideas and substance.

I think issues and substance, policy and vision and record should be the meat of politics.

The high-flying rhetoric of 'Making America Great Again' frankly appeals to me. It appeals to many people. But you've got to back that up with substance, and you've got to quit offending people who may not agree with you.

Liberals are good at catchphrases, but there's no substance behind them.

Obviously everybody can't go to the convention, but if you're staying away from the convention because you disagree with a style or some substance of Donald Trump, that's a mistake because we've got our country at stake.

The Democrats' obsession with scandal is out of touch and decadent. People want substance, not scandal.

I am not a hereditary politician and do not have any substantial asset.

It seems that elections today are more popularity than they are substantial issues.

People have realised that for want of anything substantial, the Congress is using Rafale to question the government. But people are not responding or reacting positively to them. They've had enough of this muck-raking.

We have collectively to face up to the fact that in the two main political parties there are substantial disagreements on the best form Brexit should take.

I will focus on being substantive and I will focus on Barack Obama.

Republicans and Democrats have used accounting gimmicks and competing government analyses to deceive the public into believing that 2 + 2 = 6. If our leaders cannot agree on the numbers, if 'facts' are fictional, how can they possibly have a substantive debate on solutions?

Bipartisanship is nice, but it cannot be a substitute for action, not having it cannot prevent us from going forward.

There has been a substitution of ideology for fact and scientific and engineering data in this administration.

Once you start putting in political subtext, it does create intellectually challenging science-fiction, but with 'Pacific Rim,' I always thought it would be a shame if kids couldn't go see this movie about giant robots fighting giant monsters because it seemed to have a political point of view.

Five decades ago, as India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, began visibly ailing, the nation and the world were consumed by the question: 'After Nehru, who?' The inexpressible fear lay in the subtext to the question: 'After Nehru, what?'

The fact I have an education forms my lyrical style, I'm sure. I studied the social sciences, history, stuff like that. I have an interest in politics, which maybe works its way into the songs in small, subtle ways.

Somebody must be up and somebody must be down. Trouble is, campaigns are messy, subtle creatures that don't follow convenient narratives.

The sharp differences between the way city dwellers and rural, suburban and exurban residents vote, think and live cannot be papered over by federal laws, federal rules or, clearly, by a president.

Barack Obama basically ran as a liberal suburban Republican.