Quotes About Politics

The fact is, presidential politics has become a game of inches.

I don't know a lot about politics. I like talking about human behavior. Politicians are funny to me because they often say one thing and behave a different way.

I find politics in almost every country I go to be incredibly different and incredibly similar and I'm never surprised by anything.

People are getting too far away from the real-world. Politics is just ridiculous, it's totally dysfunctional.

I've been trying to tame our press corps ever since I got into politics, and I've failed miserably. They get to express their opinions sometimes in the form of news.

I try not to tune in to politics until it's two or three months before the election. Till then, it's like watching preseason football.

Benjamin Netanyahu, understands that the standing ovation he got in Congress this year was not for his politics. That ovation was bought and paid for by the Israel lobby.

When I campaigned, I'd let them throw a punch, but by gosh, I'd throw two back. I always said, the first rule in politics is never defend, always attack. I still believe that.

I have always hated celebrities lecturing people on politics.

I didn't -- I swear I didn't -- get into politics to feather my nest or feather my friends' nests.

I've been in politics long enough to know that polls just go poof at times.

It's been a hard lesson for me , but contrary quite frankly to what is a common practice in politics, I can tell from my own experience, it is better to stay away from personalities.

In baseball when they say you're out, you're out. It's the same way in politics.

Writers only think they are interested in politics, they are not really, it gives them a chance to talk and writers like to talk but really no real writer is really interested in politics.

If you attempt an actual argument with a modern paper of opposite politics, you will have no answer except slanging or silence.

What the media is doing is, again, just going after the Democrats and the Republicans and making it about politics instead of principles.

The new racism is anything that might hurt a Democrat politically.

Democrats don't represent the taxpayers, they represent the tax-consumers.

When you're in politics sometimes you step on toes and they come back and kick you in the backside.

The only thing that could possibly save British politics would be Margaret Thatcher's assassin.

People like to do politics with me, and they like to do business.

I can't say I'm surprised: the grassroots antiwar movement keeps turning out to be MoveOn/A.N.S.W.E.R. astroturf.

As I have said, the best Bush strategy is to put Congress on TV as often as possible.

Bush is quite vulnerable if the Democrats pick the right issues. So far, though, they've shown their usual tendency to go for the capillary.