Quotes About Politics

Diplomacy means the art of nearly deceiving all your friends, but not quite deceiving all your enemies.

The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense.

Political criticism is our enemies' best friend.

My friendship with Martin [Schulz], by contrast, is completely different in that it goes far beyond politics.

I understand friendship and I can understand why Barak Obama did it, but I think Brexit is something that he shouldn't have done.

Barak Obama got involved, I don't know if Brexit was through a friendship with David Cameron.

No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it. To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

The European nations' loss of sovereignty to the EU should be a warning to Americans.

When someone asked Abraham Lincoln, after he was elected president, what he was going to do about his enemies, he replied, "I am going to destroy them. I am going to make them my friends."

The political face of Europe is one that has said very clearly that it wants cooperation and friendship with the United States.

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

As we go from Abraham Lincoln to Theodore Roosevelt to Mitt Romney, I now understand why the Republicans don't believe in evolution.

Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable.

The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them.

The baby Jesus was the last homeless person the Republicans liked.

You've got to be (an) optimist to be a Democrat, and you've got to be a humorist to stay one

If you want a friend in Washington, buy a dog.

I admire that about the Republicans: The evidence does not faze them. They are not bothered at all by the facts.

The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so they believe they are clever as he.

Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.

Congress is furious at the Secret Service for consorting with hookers, which has traditionally been Congress's role.

Ronald Regan doesn't dye his hair - he's just prematurely orange.

I don't care how much you may think they're funny or how interesting they may sound. If we nominate someone that 40 to 50 percent of our party doesn't - can't stand, we are going to lose.

They misunderestimated me.