Quotes About Politics

My time in the Obama administration turned out to be a deeply disillusioning experience.

My experience politically has always been that one-word definition of politics: money. Keep your eye on the buck. And that tells you where the American people are going to be.

I share the anger, but, ultimately, to govern this country, it takes more than anger. It takes experience. It takes positions that reflect the best values of the American people.

The ordinary affairs of a nation offer little difficulty to a person of any experience.

The political spectrum is not linear but circular. In my experience the extreme left always ends up rubbing shoulders with the extreme right. They are philosophically blood brothers.

One of the things that voters have said about Donald Trump, since he has no government experience, is that he will be able to surround himself with good advisers.

The history and our experience shows that Democrats and Republicans think the same way in some cases, and their ideas aren't very different when it comes to international relations.

Rudy Giuliani is on the list [of Secretary of State ] not because of competence, not because of foreign policy experience, he's on most entirely because of loyalty to Donald Trump.

It's so sad to see how few people in the Obama administration have any private sector experience.

It's a great experience. If you get a chance to run for president, do it.

By virtually any measure, the record of the Republican Majority is an appalling failure.

The rise of Trump is a repudiation of 30 years of bipartisan treason and failure.

Failure to critique US empire allows feminist projects to be used and mobilized as handmaidens in the imperial project.

What's happening in Cuba is not a failure of the Cuban people. It's a failure of Fidel Castro and the Communists.

The only thing wrong with the U.S. economy is the failure of the Republican Party to play Santa Claus.

I knew that there were several, among African-American leaders, who had been put out by me because of my failure or reluctance to endorse Sen. Kerry

Socialism has been an abject failure across the face of the globe, millions have suffered under socialism, and yet we're not doing an effective job communicating that.

The Republicans are calling the Democrats' plan to have a deadline for US troop withdrawal from Iraq an 'admission of failure', as opposed to the Republican plan which is 'failure without admission'.

People are angry and dispirited about government because of a failure to do something about crime.

I think one of the biggest political failures, and the biggest social failures, over the past few years has been the failure of empathy; not being able to look at the other person down the street.

[Russians] want to bring us down to make them feel better about the failure of the Soviet Union. I don't mean bring us down as in collapse, but bring us down a notch in a big way.

Put no faith in salvation through the political order.

Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.

America has become politically and culturally agnostic, and the Christian faith in the minds of many has come to represent intolerance.