Quotes About Politics

When it comes to jobs, President Obama makes the Jimmy Carter years look like good old days. If we fired Jimmy Carter then, why would we rehire Barack Obama now?

Much of what we see in America, what most people feel has been progress and good things, have been brought about by the existence of third parties.

Vladimir Putin hates America, he wants to hurt us. Suddenly Vladimir Putin is a good guy, Russia is okay, no it's not. Russia is evil, Russia is our enemy.

Human Beings are just good enough to make democracy possible...just bad enough to make it neccessary.

The competitive nation-state system, with all its capacity for good and evil, is spreading in the Third World and is transforming that world.

I think people have a need to feel good about the country they live in, but what's happening, I think, is that that need - which is a good thing - is getting manipulated and exploited.

Hillary's [Clinton] been doing a good job of portraying [Donald] Trump as unqualified, not the right temperament.

George W. Bush is using language that's a mirror image of the language of Osama bin Laden when he says, "We have God on our side. This is the struggle of good against evil."

Most good art is left wing. It's a moot point whether there is any good right-wing art.

Tax dollars go to projects that have little or nothing to do with the public good things like fruit fly research in Paris, France. I kid you not.

Democracy is threatened by the inertia of good people, by the selfishness of most people, and by the evil designs of a few people.

First of all, Bill Clinton was an extremely good president and more importantly, the country was in a very good position when he actually walked away.

People know that I am a very good author. But they would rather read what I have to say about the next election.

I like Obama. I don't know who could do a better job. He's got an incredibly tough situation, and a good heart and mind. I'd like to see him rally support a little better.

I'm a Labour politician, but, you know, I can see decent Tories with good ideas.

It's almost impossible to make the case that Bush is a conservative. That may be good; that may be bad.

One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.

I do not think an enormous permanent underclass is a very good thing to have if you're attempting to operate something that at least pretends sometimes to be a democracy.

I've been a Democrat, I've been a Republican, and I eventually became an independent because I don't believe either party has a monopoly on good ideas or strong leadership.

If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.

If more government is the answer, then it was a really stupid question.

The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.

Either you will control your government, or government will control you.

Democracy is just a filler for textbooks! Do you actually believe that public opinion influences the government?