Quotes About Politics

What I don't like is when people don't like the establishment, they don't like the current government, they combat that by saying 'I don't like politics.' Go out, have your say, vote against the government. It's the most important thing.

I'm not going to vote for Donald Trump. There's no way I would vote for him under any circumstance. However, I think that the protesters may as well send him some money, because I think they're going to push people into his camp.

If I was courting the Muslim vote, I wouldn't have put establishing the partnership ceremony at the forefront of my first term, would I? I go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights.

If I was British, I would vote resolutely 'remain' because it's in the U.K.'s interest.

If David Duke got the percentage of the vote that Le Pen got, we would be terrified, as well we should be.

What makes a politician accountable is not that there are millions of people who vote, but that there are procedures of government that force him to account for himself.

Even before I could vote, I was involved in the political arena. My father was an admirer of Adlai Stevenson, and he took me to the Stevenson for President headquarters, and he volunteered me. That was my introduction to electoral politics, which was exciting and fun and thrilling and very theatrical.

I have a funny relationship to the British working class movement... I'm in it, but not culturally of it... I was aware that I'd come from the periphery of this process. I was reluctant to go canvassing for the Labour party. I don't find it easy to say, straight, face to face with an English working class family: 'Are you going to vote for us?'

Sharpton and Jackson are 'race brokers.' Their job is to define black identity and then keep blacks in line to vote to the highest Democratic bidder that serves their purposes. 'Black enough' is just another tool in the bamboozler's toolbox.

To be elected president, you have to do more than tear down your opponents. You have to give the American people a reason to vote for you - a reason to hope - a reason to believe that under your leadership, America will be better.

In my district, California 14, we have about 4,000 families who are on food stamps, but some of my colleagues have thousands and thousands more. Yet, they somehow feel like crusaders, like heroes, when they vote to cut food stamps.

Only those who vote politicians into power have the right to depose them.

I vote Labour and can't begin to acknowledge anything good that comes from a Tory.

I have big ideas. If you don't like them, don't vote for me.

So I'm Labour, although I couldn't vote for Corbyn - he'd have taken too much money off me!

I tell you why I don't think I will ever vote for a Democrat, if I may say so. Because for me, the number one issue is right to life, and I don't think the Democrats are very good on the right-to-life issue.

I will do everything to make sure you never have reason again to vote for extremes.

My guess is more reporters probably vote Democrat than Republican - just because I think reporters are smart.

I voted for you during your last election.

My father and my mother and my sister and I have always voted Republican, always.

I hate to say it because I voted against everything Thatcher did, but she had principles she believed in.

Every racist that I know - and I know a lot of racists - every racist that I know voted for Donald Trump.

BJP raised so much horror of jungle-raj returning to Bihar if me and Nitish formed the government there. What happened? People voted for us, and there is no jungle-raaj but only Mangal-raaj in Bihar.

When Bill Clinton ran in '92, and I listened to him, and I had of course known of his record from Arkansas, I found him extraordinarily inspirational, and I voted Democratic.