Quotes About Politics

Trump represents a vibrant and fed-up mass of people who see the Republican Party as standing for nothing, so they have turned to someone who can beat the party by standing for anything.

Moreover, as we live in an era of the ascendancy of democracy and human rights, we must see that Taiwan has been a vibrant democracy with a democratically elected president and legislature.

My mother was Irish; she had this great sense of humor, and both my parents loved films. There was a very vibrant discourse about politics and everything that was going on in the world where I grew up. So I was genetically predisposed to go into the performing arts.

A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.

I am a lawyer and 22 years the mayor of Davao City. I served as congressman of the first district for one term, and I was vice mayor to my daughter, Inday.

The greatest propaganda coup of the American Right has been to convince its citizens that we are in the grip of a liberal conspiracy. As a result, Obama is to the right of Richard Nixon on most issues. And there is we believe, certainly some space to exploit there. And we, VICE, aim to exploit it.

After being sworn in to office, vice presidents have usually been relegated to the sidelines, where they just don't get to do very much.

It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their tyranny.

It's pretty hard to say no when a vice president-elect and a president-elect ask you to be part of the national team.

The vice presidential candidate tends to be a bit of an afterthought.

I was never Vice Chair of the Troops Out Movement.

Far be it from me to denigrate Senator McCain's advice on vice presidential nominees.

I'm thankful for Sarah Palin's vice presidential bid, which taught us that Alaska is not in a box off the coast of California.

Cheney refers to his vice presidency... as one of the most consequential vice presidencies in American history. And it clearly was.

In 1984, Geraldine Ferraro made history by participating in the first male-on-female vice presidential debate against George H. W. Bush. What should have been a groundbreaking moment for gender equality in politics became a forum for old gender expectations.

While it's true that the vice presidential slot isn't the most important thing on people's minds in a presidential election, these debates frequently matter.

Perhaps the cruelest thing ever said of Hubert Humphrey was that he had the soul of a vice president.

I'm going to be a vice president very much like George Bush was. He proved to be a very effective vice president, perhaps the most effective we've had in a couple of hundred years.

Elisabeth Hasselbeck could run for vice president.

I readily admit I was not an expert on foreign policy but I was knowledgeable and I didn't need a man who was the Vice President of the United States and my opponent turning around and putting me down.

Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be Vice President of the United States of America. Let's get that straight. She's a truly close personal friend. She is qualified to be President of the United States of America. She's easily qualified to be Vice President of the United States of America.

Vice president - it has such a nice ring to it!

As an intern for Vice President Walter Mondale, I arrived the first day ready to write policy memos and change the world... but my assignment was doing an inventory of the furniture.

Being president does seem a lot more stressful than being vice president.