Quotes About Politics

We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.

A lot of people get elected to Congress, and sometimes a part of their pledge is a term-limit pledge. There's no accountability.

We now know that Mr. Obama lied to the American people with his pledge 'If you like your health insurance, you can keep your health insurance.'

Believe me, I bash liberals for being mean-spirited and angry, but there are plenty on my side who are the same way.

One of the things about New York City is obviously it's a very liberal place but there are plenty of conservatives that don't feel particularly well represented by Chuck Schumer or Kirsten Gillibrand.

Farmer's plight and dismal condition of common man in Punjab forced me to join politics.

My father did not groom us for politics. I took the plunge because I wanted to carry on his work in his constituency.

Ever since I took the plunge into active politics, I faced a fair amount of attacks and criticism from political rivals, and I had learnt to take it with a pinch of salt.

I decided to plunge into the creation of Telangana. And I didn't to do it half-heartedly - didn't want people to point a finger at me and say, 'Look, another actor is using politics to get noticed.'

In fact, when I fought the 1996 election, being Mufti Mohammad Sayeed's daughter, it has its own plus and minus, so I told my father, 'please don't come for campaigning with me'.

People get so heated about it and can't see the funny side, I think. And plus, everything's been said. It must be really difficult to come up with new jokes about Brexit.

I will go out of this world feet first with my Lib Dem membership card in my pocket.

Pocketbook and economic issues is pretty much all I campaigned on.

We must look after our own before lining the pockets of overseas countries and investors.

It is clear that there has been money, but it has gone to line the pockets of the corrupt.

Why do politicians and bureaucrats get salaries and perks from the pockets of the poor and do nothing for them? So I took action against the corrupt and the lazy.

Congress as well as BJP candidates are in the pockets of Adanis.

I do plan to be on the podium with President Clinton when she's inaugurated in January 2017 - but I'm going to be sitting with the senators.

Obviously one of the things that poets from Northern Ireland and beyond - had to try to make sense of was what was happening on a day-to-day political level.

A lot of young poets today, from what I've heard and experienced, can't get their heads past George W. Bush, and I've heard so many poems about this democracy and this era of politics that I'm kind of bored by it.

What's the point of elections if everything is already decided?

I have a mindset that says bipartisanship ought to consist of Democrats coming to the Republican point of view.

Political books are so often written from the perspective of the politicians, not from the point of view of the people.

I have never hesitated to say that all philanthropists do have their politics. All of us have a political point of view; some of us articulate it, some of us don't.