Quotes About Politics

The Republicans have a positive talent for self-destruction.

Only I can turn this country around.

As Bob Dole found out, you can't keep a positive image while being your party's mouthpiece in Congress. That's why no legislative leader since James Madison has ever been elected president.

I think that politics could be a positive thing. My beef is that people focus on the personal aspect of a politician too much. They should focus on the results.

The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair.

Most of the Michelle Bachmanns and Mitt Romneys who say such terrible things about us actually is a positive force, because it allows sensible people to realize how stupid and vile their beliefs are.

A lot of people are in politics to make friends, too, instead of making positive change. Theyre worried about getting re-elected.

It wasn't too difficult to see that [Ian] Paisley would never do anything positive.

Reagan has very significant things to teach us - positive lessons and quite negative lessons.

I try to avoid saying anything positive about any presidential candidate for fear that if I actually like them then I will kill their campaign.

Probably not a surprise that, among the people of Mexico, just 4 percent say that they have a positive opinion of [Donald] Trump. Seventy-five percent say they have a negative opinion.

It is probably true that the economic benefits of being in the EU are a net positive to the UK, but a large number of people do not share in these benefits and the result is increasing inequality.

Democracy is probably the only discovery by mankind which mostly brought it only happiness.

Nation needs soldiers, politics needs civilians.

Public strengthens politics but politics weakens public.

Whoever can conquer the street will one day conquer the state, for every form of power politics and any dictatorship-run state has its roots in the street.

If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.

How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics in the twentieth century.

Stephen Harper is probably the most dangerous human being ever elevated to power in Canada.

Democracy is the power of equal votes for unequal minds

The sovereign power of all civil authority is founded in the consent of the people.

Come the millennium, month 12, In the home of greatest power, The village idiot will come forth To be acclaimed the leader.

Politics is the art of making the people believe that they are in power, when in fact, they have none.

The Russians have a lot at stake, and the power of Moscow pride should never be underestimated.