Quotes About Politics

The way I see it, all governments are just a different flavour of bastard.

People don't trust the federal government as it relates to health care.

There is an old Congo saying that if one watches the Congo River long enough, the bodies of one's enemies will eventually go floating by. Kasavubu had been watching the Congo River as President for the last five years, during which time four Prime Ministers had gone floating by.

Politics has become unbelievably and unfortunately way too much about how much money is involved rather than what kind of ideas are involved.

Regardless of Bill Clinton's politics or personal life, he grew up in obscurity and was elected to the presidency - twice. Don't take that away from him, because then you take it away from every other kid in America sitting out there in a school bus with a big dream.

All of my children are ideologically and politically in sync with me, they all have authentic Christian faith. It's something I'm very grateful for.

Well, for me the pro-life issue has been something I've been very passionate about since the '70s, and I have been very involved in the pro-life community since long before politics.

In church politics, you're surprised when people are bad, while in secular politics you're surprised when people are good.

If you're Black in America doing politics, Republicans have a tendency to be existential enemies. And white Democrats are totally unreliable.

European Union-So many tribes, so many rights. USA-One constitution. EU - mess.

In order to keep his daughter from going to jail for insider trading, Mahoney had been forced to meet with Castiglia and, for whatever reason, the two men actually liked each other. Maybe that was because there wasn't that much difference between gangsters and politicians; they just belonged to different gangs.

Unfortunately, the proximity of art and history has little influence on those who govern

DeMarco told her how he'd gone to Senator Beecham's chief of staff and how he'd videotaped Tony Benedetto telling all the things that Quinn had done—and then how Tony had betrayed him.

Among modern idols the worst is the homeland Its robe is the shroud of religion

In Barack Obama, Democrats have put forth a man of strong religious faith who is comfortable connecting his spiritual life to his public role as a policymaker.

One thing to remember about this prediction: "President Trump" was the punchline to the setup, "What's the dumbest thing we could imagine America doing?" When the news of the world becomes jokes on The Simpsons, that's satire. But when jokes on The Simpsons become the news of the world—well, that's just fucked up.

In attacking the young, the liberal, and the black, Daley was in the mainstream of America's mass prejudices. The Democratic party may have suffered by his actions, but Daley came out...even more popular than before because "bust their heads" was the mood of the land and Daley had swung the biggest club.

the ingredients for the best political donnybrook

Your political reputation affects how likely allies are to trust you, and what kind of deals they'll offer at the negotiating table. There's also some emotional response in there, so factions do bear grudges. Just like the real thing.

Even a liberal reporter is a patriot, wants the best for this country. And people, your fair and balanced friends at Fox, don't fully understand that.

In the final analysis all people—and governments alike—act in their self-interest.

There is no horror, no cruelty, sacrilege, or perjury, no imposture, no infamous transaction, no cynical robbery, no bold plunder or shabby betrayal that has not been or is not daily being perpetrated by the representatives of the states, under no other pretext than those elastic words, so convenient and yet so terrible: "for reasons of state."

Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie and the workers want no lying.

Ideological and political intolerance, even with the best and most sincere intentions, produces results that are the direct opposite of those intended.