Quotes About Politics

Anything that keeps a politician humble is healthy for democracy.

I turned off the talking politicos. Too much jabbering at each other. Not enough care about humans.

Democrats have become very good at electing very bad Republicans

Barack Obama's inspirational whoosh to the presidency in 2008 was unusual. Most campaigns are less exhilarating; indeed, they are downright disappointing - until someone wins.

Congressmen are like diapers - You need to change them often, and for the same reason

The Games have been decimated. If you take away the Eastern Bloc, you take away 50% of the medals

Rail-splitting produced an immortal president in Lincoln, but golf hasn't produced even a good Congressman.

I went from being the Terminator to being the governator.

...We are all Federalists, and we are all Republicans.

A free state is a corporate state.

Americans need to learn from the Wilson era, that there is a connection between racist presidential leadership and like-minded public response.

Two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch may be an example of democracy, but it hardly serves as an enduring model of liberty.

They have become spoilers because in their view America's political elites, both Republican and Democrat, have grown together into an almost indiscernible "hybrid royalty" that offers them little to choose from in terms of how the nation is actually being governed.

the common good is defined by who wins at the polls, and the policies they make. Like it or lump it.

In a nutshell, over the decades the national policies of the Republicans had raped the region while the actions of many state and local Democrats too often were designed to preserve the assets of a select few at the expense of just about everyone else.

it represents a large, independent swing vote—whose key concerns are seldom passionately represented by either side in any election—rather than a force that affirmatively shapes the national agenda.

Oft have I marked, with silent pleasure and admiration, the force and prevalence, through the United States, of the principle that the supreme power resides in the people, and that they never part with it. It may be called the panacea in politics.

My excursions into "horse politics" and "the alphabets" were to pay my debt to society by serving in the political trenches of the equestrian world, but horse politics never defined me. It took horses to do that.

The days when the words 'Hollywood actor' framed Ronald Reagan like bunny fingers as an ID tag and an implied insult seem far-off and quaint: nearly everybody in politics - candidate, consultant, pundit, and Tea Party crowd extra alike - is an actor now, a shameless ham in a hoked-up reality series that never stops.

One gift, one time--that's bribery. Lots of gifts over a long time--that's politics.''-- Roland Vanatua, from The Coup

I respect the office of the president.

So you know, I think that the federal government, the Democrats, and President Obama are selling a lot of hope and change, but no delivery of any of those promises.

Hillary Clinton was her protégée, even when she was the nation's First Lady and then a U.S. senator from New York. Some of the cracks in the glass ceiling were put there by Ann.

The House Republican leadership has simply run out of ideas.