Quotes About Politics

From here in Iowa, it seems to be the wealthy and big corporations get enough help.

Betty Sutton and I will make it a point to put state government back on the side of the middle class, not the wealthy and well-connected who have run the show at the statehouse for far too long.

What unites Trump's voters is a sense of alienation from America's wealthy and powerful.

When I see the sort of mindless tax cuts for the wealthy, cuts to education, I just think we've got it exactly backward in this country.

Ukip has policies including cutting taxes for the wealthy and putting them up for everyone else, charging people to see their GP, or taking away maternity rights.

The worry in Labour circles is that, when pressed, Gordon Brown instinctively moved to cut the benefits of the poor rather than upset businesses and the wealthy.

Trickle-down economics does not work, and tax reform should not be defined as partisan tax cuts for the wealthy and huge corporations.

In short, Republicans under Trump have finally destroyed the New Deal, turning the government over to a small cadre of wealthy businessmen, unhampered, to run the country as they see fit.

Many elected Republicans know that ensuring that people of color can vote freely would spell bad news for them and their agenda, which privileges corporations and the wealthy.

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.

Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way.

People often ask me how I feel about my invention being used to kill people every day and the AK being a common weapon of ethnic conflicts. I want to make it clear that I created my assault rifle to protect my country. You can blame politicians for its spreading out of control on a global scale.

Sanctions are not really an economic weapon.

Antiracists must acknowledge that patriarchy has long been a weapon of racism and cannot sit comfortably in any politic of racial transformation.

Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.

Often dismissed or underestimated by political opponents, President Reagan had the most valuable weapon in the political arsenal: a bond with the people.

There is a weapon we can fight with. That is the weapon of political action.

The JCPOA is working - preventing Iran from developing a nuclear weapon. It's time for the Republicans to start working, too.

Cartoons, if you ask me, are the most powerful weapon in today's politics. Balasaheb Thackeray has proved this.

When the situation politically became intolerable within South Africa, we used the arts as a weapon for change.

On the justification for the war, it wasn't related to finding any particular weapon of mass destruction.

I think that Iran with a nuclear weapon is extremely destabilizing. I think it could precipitate a nuclear arms race in the region.

If Iran gets a nuclear weapon, its influence and that of Hamas and Hezbollah are strengthened.

Clinton's resilience became sort of the secret weapon of the campaign. He was never going to just give up and get out.