Quotes About Politics

Remember how Margaret Thatcher came to believe that abroad was more important than at home? Didn't do her much good.

Congress is my ideological home; I come from a Nehruvian family.

I joke that if she [Debbie Wasserman Schultz] could find a 3 a.m. slot in the Home Shopping Network, she would grab that. So those emails only confirm what we knew.

Citizenship means every four years you put a mark somewhere and you go home and let other guys run the world. It's a very destructive ideology.

I'm fascinated how owning something, especially something as big as a home, can affect your political leanings. Home ownership spawns thoughts of equity and maintaining value.

Hard to remember who is more dangerous: the people who are attacking our liberties overseas, or those who are suppressing them at home.

As his country crumbled around him, Fidel Castro's stature diminished abroad and at home.

I feel that one of the reasons Brexit happened was that people stayed at home rather than going to the polls.

I was studying American politicians who were searching - allegedly - for American communists because it would put them on the front pages of the papers in their home towns.

The problems we face now - poverty and violence at home, war and destruction abroad - will last only as long as we continue relying on the same politicians who created them in the first place.

It is very creditable when a woman gets into politics. She does this at the expense of responsibilities toward her home and family and should be lauded for this.

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

The public want honesty from their politicians. Not showy gimmicks.

Let's tell the truth. Mr. Reagan will raise taxes, and so will I. He won't tell you. I just did.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Donald Trump tweeted out to the world a quote allegedly from Senator Tom Coburn impugning my honesty. Within hours, Tom Coburn came out publicly and said, "That quote was an utter fabrication."

I think it is better when people with their own businesses and means of income join politics as there is some degree of honesty and integrity.

Watergate left Washington a city ravaged by honesty.

It is our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them, and have the honesty to say to people, 'There are no easy solutions here.'

When your mission is to restore honor and integrity to the White House, you've got to be willing to use any means necessary.

The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honor.

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.

Washington honors the Platinum Rule above all: 'Do it unto others before they do it unto you'.

In Washington it is an honor to be disgraced. you have to have been somebody to fall.