Quotes About Politics

When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it's the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone's talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false 'intelligence' and selected 'leaks.'

Tillis has been weak on China since he got to Washington.

The rest of the world sees America as weak.

In the modern world, those who are weak will get unambiguous advice from foreign visitors which way to go and what policy course to pursue.

It's interesting to me that apparently distasteful comments from the Right against weak targets tend to draw a lot less media fire than apparently distasteful comments from the Left against hard targets. That's one of the threads that runs through the show and that people hopefully pick up on.

Donald Trump is already losing badly to Hillary Clinton. He is a weak candidate, and he's performing that way.

Trump is not going to win the presidency because he himself is a weak, weak candidate.

In the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections, American voters were forced to choose between a liberal Democrat and weak establishment Republicans. Democrats won both times.

I think all things are political... How women are portrayed - that's a big thing for me. What is this role trying to say about women? Is this woman weak or victimised, and, if so, do we get to understand why?

Indeed, 'The Second Plane' is such a weak, risible, and often objectionable volume that the reader finishes it convinced that Mr. Amis should stick to writing fiction and literary criticism, as he's thoroughly discredited himself with these essays as any sort of political or social commentator.

The CPI need not worry about the BJP, which is working for people's betterment, or its coalition. Let the CPI realise that it is part of a very weak coalition.

I think President Obama is weak, bored with the office, and an incompetent leader.

In an election campaign, sleep is for the weak.

When I came in, Haiti was not governed by Haitians anymore. Probably mostly by NGOs. And that has done what to Haiti? It has weakened our institution.

Prediction is a mug's game, but taking the side of water polluters has not been a winning political strategy for 50 years. Presidents Reagan, Bush I, and Bush II all undertook to weaken water regulations in the name of economic growth. They left office; the regulations remained.

Past experience has shown that the Islamists gain space when civilian authority weakens.

I don't think there could've been a pitch as crass as Trump's 'I can fix America because I'm rich' without that groundwork laid by Davos and the Clinton Global Initiative.

I was appointed to Cabinet three times; on no occasion did I pitch for what position I wanted.

If we want the best pitcher, let's get Bobby Feller. If want the best football player, let's get Jimmy Brown; the best basketball player, let's get Bill Russell. If we want the guy who can do the best job for the United States - let's get Donald Trump.

Political novels are full of pitfalls, particularly for a novelist with strong political leanings.

I'm knocking our pitiful, pathetic lawmakers.

I feel pity for Mayawati that joined hands even with rival Akhilesh Yadav only in an attempt to stop Narendra Modi.

Whether you agree with Trump or not, you can't deny he looks like a piece of pizza with the cheese off. It's just what it is.

If any place in America needs to close, it is Congress.