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Quotes About Politics

The merely political aspect of the land is never very cheering; men are degraded when considered as the members of a political organization.
~ Henry David Thoreau
A man with a long history of racial discrimination should never run our government.
~ Hillary Clinton
You know, Barack Obama is a man of great dignity. And I could tell how much it bothered him and annoyed him that this [birther lie] was being touted and used against him.
~ Hillary Clinton
You can't make Howard Dean a straw man. He is what he appears to be. And that's the beauty of Howard Dean.
~ Howard Dean
He thought of men like Hitler, Stalin, and Napoleon. All it took was a lot of seemingly decent people to put the wrong person in power and then fall under their spell.
~ Hugh Howey
Adding an overarching tier of tyrants - the EU - to European governments has benefited Europeans as a second hangman enhances the health of a condemned man.
~ Ilana Mercer
Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House
~ Irwin Shaw
I found a kind of party terrorism pervading and oppressing the minds of our best men.
~ James A. Garfield
The only politician in America I know with a man-date is Jim McGreevey.
~ James Carville
Contact with the affairs of state is one of the most corrupting of the influences to which men are exposed.
~ James F. Cooper
When your opponent sets up a straw man, set it on fire and kick the cinders around the stage. Don't worry about losing the Strawperson- American community vote.
~ James Lileks
If men were angels, there would be no need of government.
~ James Madison
One of the oddities of this election is the man that [Donald] Trump chose as his vice-president, Mike Pence, is one of the Kochs' favourite politicians.
~ Jane Mayer
It appears to be a matter of national pride that the President is to have more mud, and blacker mud, and filthier mud in front ofhis door than any other man can afford.
~ Jane Swisshelm
There are a lot of idiots in this country, and they deserve representation as much as the next man.
~ Jasper Fforde
President Bush got a little upset with a reporter for calling him 'sir' instead of 'Mr. President.' Man, how upset is he going to be after the election when they start calling him George again?
~ Jay Leno
Man or woman in the White House. How about that?
~ Jedediah Bila
I can't think of a man more worthy of the presidency then my good friend Sam Nunn.
~ Jimmy Carter
Hillary Clinton said that Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi is engaged in 'theater.' Which explains the new strategy to defeat him: casting him as the lead in 'Spider-Man: the Musical.'
~ Jimmy Fallon
What's the use, there never was a woman living who could understand political ideas.
~ John Dos Passos
Remember, the Islamist view of democracy is: one man, one vote, one election, and that's it.
~ John Fund
This man [ Donald Trump] won in an electoral landslide.
~ John Lewis
All rising to great place is by a winding stair; and if there be factions, it is good to side a man's self whilst he is in the rising, and to balance himself when he is placed.
~ John Locke
I was brought up and raised in Britain as a Labour man, and that quickly changed. And I find there are more working-class people in the Conservative Party than the Labour party.
~ John Lydon