Quotes About Politics

After sweeping to power in the Newt Gingrich-led 'revolution' of 1994, the GOP had overplayed its hand and watched Bill Clinton easily defeat Bob Dole in 1996.

After President Obama took office, his campaign book 'The Audacity of Hope' receded into his past fast. Its sweet, naive, bipartisan 'let's reason together' passages fell away, too.

In the arsenal of the phony, the politics of God is one of the deadliest punches to the sweet spot of the American mind.

No deal wouldn't return sovereignty to the U.K., it would make us dependent on a sweetheart deal with Donald Trump.

There was a slow-motion swift boating of Hillary Clinton in '15.

Obama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing.

Even I felt sorry for Richard Nixon when he left; there's nothing you can do about being born liberal - fish gotta swim, and hearts gotta bleed.

Richard Nixon was a criminally insane Monster - Bill Clinton is a black-hearted Swine of a friend.

Leave it to an Obama supporter to bring up Iraq in the middle of a conversation about the swine flu pandemic.

As the country's third-largest state by population, Florida is the crown jewel in the Electoral College among swing states.

Political pendulums swing hard and feed on stark contrast.

New Mexico has been, in the past, a swing state.

When it came to dire warnings about Obamacare, the Republicans were the kings of 'swing and a miss.' People would flee the health care industry to avoid Obamacare? Nope - according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, health care gained about 1 million new jobs in preparation for increased demand.

Florida has been, and will continue to be, a swing state.

And when a few noncitizens vote, those can swing a close election.

Politics is a pendulum that swings constantly. It's really hard to say what's going to happen in four years or in two years or in one year.

It is going to take a long time to switch Egypt into a democracy.

We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based.

Senator Arlen Specter hasn't really switched parties; he's simply realized he cannot win the Pennsylvania Republican primary election.

Party switching has all the emotional edges and baggage of divorce.

What do I want in a good fantasy book? Court politics and social interactions based around houses and cities. Powerful women and devious men. Drama and action with emotional ramifications. Frocks. Kissing. Swords. An intense impression of history in the world-building.

There is always a gap between what candidates say in the heat of the campaign, when they are not constrained by the realities of governance, and how they act after being sworn into office.

Curiously, many Democrats have acceded to Clintonism not because of their cold practicality and political professionalism, but because the Clintons are the sworn enemy of the right. The Clintons, in other words, while hardly being left, have been defined as the opposite of being right - the enemy of my enemy being my friend.

Previously known for its six syllables of sweetness and light, reconciliation has become the political fighting word of the year.