Quotes About Politics

During an election, it's like they're doing my job: they're going around banging the drum for their party and selling their movie. You know, it's the same thing.

I grew up with parents who liked the old line that they didn't leave the Democratic Party - the Democratic Party left them.

A party committed to defending the economic interests of rich elites could never win by saying so.

I saw my dad, my mother and all the people who were part of the party in Ottawa, and of different parties, working really hard for what they believed in.

Congress is hiding the details of their party president Rahul Gandhi's citizenship. Rahul Gandhi's real name is Rahul Vincy. They are cheating people by hiding the real names of Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra.

When I was 23, I didn't have much of an interest in politics. All of my interests were in partying and meeting girls and doing stand-up. That's all I cared about. Now, when you have a kid and stuff, you start watching the news and say, 'They shouldn't take money away from this education department.' You start having much more exact opinions.

Glenn Beck is Rush redux - Limbaugh with liposuction, partying like it's still 1993.

And this administration and this House leadership have said, quote-unquote, they will stop at nothing to pass this health care bill. And now they've gotten rid of me and it will pass. You connect the dots.

I think there's a lot to learn from Rockefeller on how to pass legislation.

Hostility to the Human Rights Act has been present in sections of the Conservative Party since its enactment, and this has grown more strident with the passage of time, encouraged by some sections of the press.

I look forward to fighting Nancy Pelosi, and I look forward to defeating Nancy Pelosi in getting the Green New Deal passed.

Despite the fact that important measures such as the Americans with Disabilities Act passed only with crucial Republican support, the public - and the community of disability advocates - normally identifies this issue with the Democratic party.

It is very difficult to get legislation passed. But then the danger always is that you have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.

The 112th Congress passed only 220 laws, the lowest number enacted by any Congress. In 1948, when President Truman called the 80th Congress a 'Do-Nothing' Congress, it had passed more than 900 laws.

Clinton passed his first budget without a single Republican vote in either the House or the Senate. Before it led to the longest economic expansion in U.S. history, it led to a Democratic defeat in the 1994 midterms.

I think I passed up a lot of opportunities for love because I was too interested in identity politics.

We'll keep sending more and more conservatives to Washington, and we'll eventually get these bills passed. But don't be afraid to pass good, strong, conservative legislation.

Democracy passes into despotism.

Not passing Obamacare won't bankrupt America; passing it will.

There are examples of fraternal dictatorships, or one, anyway: the passing of power from Fidel to Raul Castro.

Everyone says we have our first African American president. Has there ever been a Jewish president? An Italian president? They don't say a damn thing about that. You think we're still fighting the Civil War or something. If you want to mention it in passing, OK. But don't dwell on it.

In Washington, the accepted method for passing along information about how the government fails to meet real-world needs is to leak it.

Let me say again that the relationship is asymmetrical: there's no democracy without a market economy, but you can have a market economy without democracy.

He was not one of those Nazi supporters who were attracted by the 'Führer's' charisma; instead, he became politically involved primarily in the context of the general preparations for a putsch that were being carried out by right-wing paramilitary organizations in the years 1922/3. If he had a political hero at this time it was Röhm, not Hitler.