Quotes About Politics

Labour leaders lead us all, though we know they bleed us all. Cheer our new Decline and Fall, Gibbon might have dreamed it all.

History tells us that the threat to prosperity is not debt but socialism.

Next in Iran, Hillary Clinton launched the negotiations that brought about the worst nuclear deal in history.

Over the years, over the history of our country, liberals have stood on many of the right sides of the issues.

If we're at the lowest point in history, that means we're in a new Cold War.

Cut, Cap and Balance is worst legislation in history.

I've always felt privileged to cover the White House and to have that ringside seat to history

An Iranian moderate is one who has run out of ammunition.

President Obama is in no danger of being judged by history as an eco-radical.

There's a lot of revisionist history that goes on these days about Iraq.

The National Football league is on the wrong side of history.

The unexpressed aim of every politician is to influence events that history books will record his name - and spell it right.

When I was 17, I came to the U.S. to study Middle Eastern history and politics at Columbia University.

[ John] Winthrop was the man who first said America was "a city upon a hill," which [Ronald] Reagan then appropriated. There are incidents like that all through history. We have been here.

Vladimir Putin is a dictator. He's not a leader. Anybody who thinks otherwise doesn't know Russian history and they don't know Vladimir Putin.

When politics promote hate, it becomes a rule, and populist provocation becomes standard. It has been the same throughout the entire history of humanity.

It is the future, of course, which politicians grapple with, and that is why politics is so disorderly. Only history clears away some of the debris.

I have to say that I think that Anthony Eden was probably the most disastrous Prime Minister in our history, and I am not forgetting Lord North and a few people like that.

Unlike any other leader in modern American history, we are led today by a president that has decided to pit Americans against each other.

I'm defining [presidential courage] pretty narrowly. It's not only taking a big political risk but it's also the risk that in the hindsight of history, people think it's wise.

We had one moment in history where we were disseminating what we now call the Islamic State. That's when we finally cut the deal with the insurgents.

A good many people voted for [Barack] Obama, and I'm not only talking about the black vote. A lot of people voted for Obama because of our history of racial discrimination in this country.

We are going to have the candidate of food stamps, the finest food-stamp president in the American history, in Barack Obama, and we are going to have a candidate of paychecks.

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.-Thomas Jefferson