Quotes About Politics

My very good friend, Rahm Emanuel, made it very clear to me on several occasions that I was, quote, unquote, not a team player; that I was not - that I didn't not have a future.

Each achieves one or both of two objectives — making liberals feel good about themselves and being good to liberal candidates.

Not a good night for President Obama. He lost elections in Virginia, New Jersey, and he's not doing good in Afghanistan either.

When Dwight Eisenhower became president, I personally was delighted. I thought that that was a very good thing.

It is a very good thing, and a significant one too, to exterminate the bourgeoisie and capitalism in China.

Our leaders will serve the common good with better laws and better actions only when we serve it first, by casting better votes.

Politicians are good listeners. Because if they're not, they aren't politicians for very long.

Responding to the question "If Mr. Stalin dies, what will be the effect on international affairs?" That is a good question for you to ask, not a wise question for me to answer.

Washington is a place where good ideas go to die.

I don't understand how any good art could fail to be political.

We say in a democracy that good ideas will drive out bad ones, so if the good ones aren't there, we're left with the bad ones

It'd be good for the world if [Donald Trump] won.

Rick Santorum beat Mitt Romney in three states on Tuesday. Got a huge amount of fundraising. That's the good news for Rick Santorum. The bad news: people are now Googling 'Santorum.'

[Barack Obama] done some good things, he's done a couple of bad things. He's obsessed with this all of the above energy policy and... lots and lots of drilling in the States, so he's been weak on it.

A good day for Barack Obama is anytime the dominant topic of discussion is anything but the economy.

Appearances are significant, and never more than in politics. You can always sway the crowd, provided you have a good story.

The public knows how many good things there are as part of the Affordable Care Act. The Republicans say they're going to repeal. They don't know what to replace it with.

You know what I think that button [in Kremlin] should have read? It should've read "delete." Y'know, she [Hillary Clinton] is very good at that by the way.

Where is the Marco Rubio bump everyone was promised? And it doesn't look very good.

If I can't negotiate something that gets more than four Republicans, I'm not a very good representative of my party.

There are 300,000 new jobs and Bush said he's confused, 'Can I take credit for good news that I didn't even make up?'

I was a very, very good congressman.

I had a good political career, and I have a good business career. I didn't get the brass ring. But I did very well.

Some good news. Finally, President Bush is going to do something about global warming. He became alarmed when another chunk of ice fell off his mother.