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Quotes About Politics

The sight of allegedly sophisticated politicians parroting complete tripe trivialises and demeans government and it has to be stopped. It's played a significant part in public disillusionment with politics and has led to the absurd situation where more people vote for 'Strictly Come Dancing' than voted in the general election.
~ John Major
I didn't think politics had anything to do with our daily lives. I had never voted. Well boy I know now.
~ Mike Lindell
And I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.
~ William Gilbert
If I put myself on the ballot and even 50 people voted for me, it'd be a travesty.
~ Al Franken
Kentuckians voted for Donald Trump because they wanted to drain the swamp and lower prescription drug prices. A lot of what has stood in the way of what Donald Trump promised is Senator McConnell.
~ Amy McGrath
There is a movement to get an international criminal court in the world, voted for by hundreds of states-but with the noticeable absence of the United States of America.
~ Harold Pinter
The Brexit thing says it all. It's all to do with immigration and the people that have voted to leave the EU... for me, it's because of racism, because they don't want people coming into our country.
~ Andre Gray
I am, you know, a Democrat through and through. I've always voted Democratic. You know, that is where my heart lies.
~ Caroline Kennedy
Either you're going to have to vote for taxes or not vote for taxes. So, if you've already voted for taxes, you've already done it.
~ Robert J. Bentley
The case for Brexit was made on rhetorical flourishes and promises and bluster. A lot of promises on which people voted have turned out to be undeliverable. It was a false prospectus.
~ Jo Johnson
If you look at why many Kentuckians voted for President Trump, for example, they voted for an outsider. They voted for somebody who was gonna shake up the system. He promised to drain the swamp. And, you know, my message is you can't do that until you get rid of Senator McConnell.
~ Amy McGrath
I'm a Republican. I don't want to go to heaven and have to face my family up there and tell them I voted for a Democrat.
~ T. Boone Pickens
You know, I think that with Judge Kavanaugh, yeah, I probably would have voted for him.
~ Amy McGrath
I'm a conservative. I voted for Donald Trump and back in 2016 everybody was talking about, 'Oh my God, here's another TV character trying to run for the presidency.' They didn't really take him seriously.
~ Jake Hager
I've got a really long record around progressive politics, especially when it comes to the economy. Voted against the Bush tax cuts. Voted against the Trump tax cuts. Believe in investment into lifting people up, closing the opportunity gaps that exist in our society.
~ Tim Ryan
No way Putin will let anyone take away his power. Even if all the people of Russia voted for me.
~ Ksenia Sobchak
If you're asking me, would I have voted for Mitt Romney, the answer is absolutely not. Emphatically not. I cannot envision a world in which I would have voted for Mitt Romney unless I sustained a massive concussion.
~ John Oliver
I think Donald Trump was brought to power by Americans. They voted for him.
~ Masha Gessen
African-Americans who might have disagreed with candidate Obama's left-of-center politics voted for him in 2008 because electing a candidate with brown skin was too historic an opportunity to miss.
~ Alveda King
In 2007 elections, people voted for us in the hope that we would get rid of Goonda Raj, as the criminals of SP had made life difficult for them.
~ Mayawati
I think a lot of the people who voted for Donald Trump were frustrated. And what they thought was, OK, government is broken. Therefore, we're going to send in this incendiary character. And he's just going to going to bust it all up, and we'll see what happens.
~ Sheldon Whitehouse
Everyone is so fascinated that I voted Leave. I find that interesting in itself. As an economic liberal, I want to see Britain trading more freely around the world.
~ Kemi Badenoch
A lot of people didn't feel attracted to Labour, so they voted in desperation for other things.
~ Jeremy Corbyn
We really got a lot of very conservative gay people. You could look at the figures from the last election and realize that a third of the gay movement voted Republican.
~ Kate Clinton