Quotes About Politics

There's lots about politics I don't feel comfortable with. To talk about the politics of future ideas is impossible in soundbite form.

Sooner or later, people are going to figure out if all you run is negative attack ads you don't have much of a vision for the future or you're not ready to articulate it.

I think when you look to the future what you'll find is that the Republican Party is building a bigger party base on stronger values.

For investor confidence, it is important that there is certainty about the future of Ireland in E.U.

This 2016 election better be about the future, not the past. It better be about the issues our nation and the world is facing today, not simply the issues we once faced.

Elections are about the future. And the GOP will not win a campaign focused on the past.

I believe that the Democratic party has a bright future, but that like any long lived entity it needs to address some fundamental issues.

Democrats have no agenda, no plan for the future, and no sense of leadership.

While politicians may be forgiven for failing to predict the future - who can, alas? - it is amazing that they defiantly ignore the past.

If I'm lucky enough to be involved in the Academy Awards in the future, I'll just let people make up their decision without being involved in any politics. Because it shouldn't involve that.

The policy of the future cannot forever be determined by the politics of the past - or even the present.

Kennedy had made a mess in Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. He had to do something to look good. The Apollo program of going to the Moon was quite a goal.

When an issue becomes a vital part of a political agenda, as is the case with climate, then the politically desired position becomes a goal rather than a consequence of scientific research.

My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.

I have tremendous admiration for everyone who enters the political arena so long as their goal is to do what they believe is right for the people of New York.

In Burma, our main goal in amending the constitution is not to phase out the military from politics. Our main point is to put the constitution in line with international standards and norms.

A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.

I've never met anyone who has said, "My goal is to make America mediocre." That's a kind of hard-right conservative fallacy.

Socialism and interventionism. Both have in common the goal of subordinating the individual unconditionally to the state.

We simply must look beyond partisan goals and find common ground as Americans. It is imperative that the Members of Congress recognize that partisanship will not serve the American people.

Pinochet and Barack Obama both have the same primary goal, and that's to be president and stay president as long as allowed.

Larry Flynt, running for governor of California. His goal - change our state bird to the spread eagle.

I've read books in school that were written by ideological rote - they were brainwashers. Therefore, any art, any literature, that has a clearly defined political goal is repellent to me.

Experts are saying that President Bush's goal now is to politically humiliate Saddam Hussein. Why don't we just make him the next Democratic presidential nominee?