Quotes About Politics

What directors, authors, comic artists, and even game designers want is to hit the audience with a cultural roundhouse. There's no way to do that effectively without pushing political buttons to overstimulate the most delicate nerve endings of personal belief, ideology, patriotism, gender roles, and unexamined hatreds.

Les 'hommes de bonne volonté', feel Their politics perhaps unreal And all they have believed untrue, Are tempted to surrender to The grand apocalyptic dream In which the persecutors scream

People and politics are a lot like think the wind. Depending on which way the wind is blowing either makes us sway left or right. Only when the winds are calm can we grow,straight and tall.

I don't have to give [Donald Trump] a chance.

I got into politics a little bit by chance, as a person from the first generation of the Solidarity movement.

We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy.

News conferences are the only chance the American public has to see Ronald Reagan use his mind.

I was the perfect candidate. America had their chance with the perfect candidate.

There is absolutely zero chance that ObamaCare will be repealed while Democrats control the Senate and President Obama is in the White House.

A massive immigration bill has no chance of becoming law.

What chance does a five-foot-seven billionaire Jew who's divorced really have of becoming president?

I think both of them [Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders] have [chances] because they are not the establishment, not for who they are.

There is no chance of a revolution in Georgia.

Never miss a political meeting if you think there's the slightest chance you'll wish you'd been there.

Well I haven't seen any free elections in the Arab world. They may be coming someday, except for in Israel. In Israel, Arabs have a chance to participate in free elections. Nowhere else really.

Statistically, you don't have much chance of becoming president if you're not tall and fairly handsome or at least conventional-looking.

The 60th seed at Wimbledon gets a chance at Center Court. The 60th seed in the NCAA gets a chance to go to the Final Four. But the third seed [in presidential politics] is shut out.

I think that in many ways, some of those who did vote for Trump are sorry that they did so. But the hope, at least, is that we have a chance to make up for those kinds of mistakes.

In Japan, usually, once you become prime minister, you do not have a second chance.

Political advice is a bit like your average Christmas fruitcake: something everyone gives and no one wants.

All of the promises of ObamaCare, all of those shiny objects that were sold in Christmas in 2009 didn't come true.

[Donald] Trump is a [Hillary] Clinton Christmas gift.

We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas.

There's symbolism in politics. There's communication in politics. And I think what Donald Trump is saying is, give me the job, and when I get to that job I will figure it out.