Quotes About Politics

I don't want anybody suspecting I am some sheep and part of the Washington D.C. establishment.

Washington has been ignoring this issue for too long.

Yet there is disappointment in Washington and in the United States that Canada is not supporting us fully.

Clinton feels a profound alienation from the Washington culture here, and I happen to agree with him.

In Washington, DC, politics dominate even the most casual conversations.

The idea of being in the State Department was exciting. On the other hand, I always had in the back of my mind going into politics. If I stayed in Washington, I might end up a government hack.

I always try to keep my constituents as up-to-date as possible with what's going on here in Washington.

I've been in Washington ever since 1981, trying to get out!

The worst excesses of the Congress of the 1980s pale in comparison with what is going on in Washington today.

In subsequent years the groups you named had important roles in educating people about the real issues in Washington and Raleigh, and within the Democratic Party.

I've seen disgusting excess in business, and I've seen disgusting excess in Washington. But at the same time, I've certainly learned that Washington matters and that you can't ignore it, especially when you get into telecom.

My sense was that most of the elected officials in Washington - in their heart of hearts - really believe that the system can't be too bad because it produced them.

So if 1960 had occurred under the old convention system, Kennedy would have had a very hard time getting the Democratic nomination because he would have been rejected by all those people who had worked with him in Washington.

I've never seen Washington as divided as we are right now.

You don't change minds in Washington with sweet reason. You do it to the white light of public opinion.

If Washington is a two-party town, why can't Hollywood be one too?

You think that somehow they didn't come after me to get rid of me because my vote is the deciding vote in the health care bill? Then, ladies and gentlemen, you live today in a world that is so innocent as to not understand what's going on in Washington, D.C.

I think Barack Obama has brought a new level of ethical standards to Washington. Has he changed some basic hard-knuckle politics? No. You need hard-knuckle politics to succeed.

Voters definitely believe Washington is corrupt - but most think it's bipartisan.

We'll have to marshal our forces in Washington. It won't be easy. That doesn't mean it can't be done.

What Ottawa and Washington used to think about Turkey or Iran was not very important because we really didn't think much about either, but now what we think about them is extremely important - to ourselves and to many other peoples.

Well, here's what I think. I mean, the people are saying, 'We don't want it,' and the Democrats are saying, 'We don't care. We're going to pass it anyway.' And so for the next three months, Washington will be consumed with the Democrats trying to jam this through in a very messy procedure an unpopular health care bill.

The reality is that during the Reagan years, for instance, we doubled the amount of revenue that we were sending to Washington, D.C. after the tax cuts took effect.

I think it's clear to me that what - when I look at the tea party, it's about one-third Democrat, one-third Republican, one-third independents. But 100 percent of them are sure that the agenda that is taking place in Washington, D.C., is about extremism and is about bankrupting this country and every state within this country.