Quotes About Politics

I want you to remember when our White House reflected the best of who we are, not the worst of what Europe has become.

My leadership will end the Obama era and begin a new era of American prosperity.

The country already has a leader who divides us with the bitter politics of envy. We have to offer an alternative vision.

Now workers should have the right to join unions. But unions should not be forced upon workers. And unions should not have the power to take money our of their members' paychecks to buy the support of politicians that are favored by the union bosses.

It's time for the party of big ideas, not the party of Big Brother!

Washington has to become an ally of business, not the opposition of business.

When my mom ran for the Senate, my dad was there for her every step of the way. I can still hear her saying in her beautiful voice, 'Why should women have any less say than men, about the great decisions facing our nation?'

You know, out-of-touch liberals like Barack Obama say they want a strong economy, but in everything they do, they show they don't like business very much. But the economy, of course, is simply the product of all the businesses of the nation added together. So it's a bit like saying you like an omelet, but you don't like eggs.

If you felt that excitement when you voted for Barack Obama, shouldn't you feel that way now that he's President Obama? You know there's something wrong with the kind of job he's done as president when the best feeling you had was the day you voted for him.

Since Castro took power, the Cuban people have been denied basic human freedoms. No freedom of religion, no freedom of the press, no political freedom. And the regime uses brutality and violence to suppress these freedoms and impose its will.

It seems that the first victim of an Obama campaign is the truth. It seems that the first victim of an Obama campaign is the truth.

Men they had been trained to regard as subhuman were now their representatives in Washington, not to mention their governors, judges, sheriffs, and schoolmasters. In reaction, the region saw the flourishing of domestic terrorist groups like the Red Shirts in South Carolina, the White League in Louisiana, and the White Liners in Mississippi. Violence became part of everyday politics.

If I seem to take part in politics, it is only because politics encircles us today like the coil of a snake from which one cannot get out, no matter how much one tries. I wish therefore to wrestle with the snake.

He who is active in politics strives for power, either as a means in serving other ends, ideal or egoistic, or as 'power for power's sake,' that is, in order to enjoy the prestige-feeling that power gives.

Para él, quienes no lo apoyan, no son miembros de la oposición que confronta todo gobierno democrático, sino enemigos mortales que no tienen derecho a tener ningún rol político.

Yo conozco bien este país. »Los venezolanos aman su libertad y, aunque haya descontento, prefieren la democracia.

La adaptación de los partidos políticos al siglo XXI es una prioridad.

But on the political front, the Golden Straitjacket narrows the political and economic policy choices of those in power to relatively tight parameters. . . .

Él ha entendido que en estos tiempos es necesario para los gobernantes parecer democráticos aunque en la práctica no lo sean. Pero guardar las apariencias democráticas es algo que a Hugo le interesa... y lo hace muy bien.

Millones juzgan que están en juego las libertades políticas y desaprueban que el presidente quiera llevar el país a un modelo como el de Cuba gracias a los votos que obtendrá engañando a los pobres con promesas que se sabe que son imposibles, regalándoles pollos, televisores, neveras o, directamente, dinero.

Casi todos los senadores, diputados y gobernadores que Hugo apoya ganan. Todo apunta, pues, a que tiene las vías despejadas para gobernar sin cortapisas.

Puede que ganar unas elecciones siga siendo una de las grandes emociones de la vida, pero el brillo de esa victoria se extingue ahora muy rápido para dar paso a la frustración.

el proceso de apertura política y profundización de la democracia ni es lineal ni es universal. Siempre habrá excepciones y contraejemplos.

Resentment" is one such euphemism: a polite word for the longing to hurt those you believe have wronged you. The politics of resentment are the politics of revenge.