Quotes About Politics

Simply because something is a populist movement doesn't make it either good or bad.

Washington's Alfalfa Club dinner is a populist's nightmare.

There can be an energy in a populist campaign that isn't always in the best interest of the party.

I'm a nationalist and populist.

I think Trump had this general populist agenda but has not been particularly adept at using the levers of power in Washington.

If someone thinks the course of Italian politics will become anti-European, against an open society, against trade, or populist, as they say today, the facts will prove them wrong.

I'm so proud of being a populist!

American populist politics has a long tradition, from Andrew Jackson to Huey Long to Joseph McCarthy. But the politician Trump is most like could be George Wallace.

The thing is, it's much easier to be a rightwing populist than a leftwing one, because the left always have to explain why things are the way they are. The right can just blame the foreigners.

I don't know if Rush Limbaugh knows the difference between a screen porch and a screen play.

I'm carrying so much pork, I'm beginning to get trichinosis.

In Congress, it's all pork, all the time.

When I get to Washington, I'll know how to cut pork. Washington is full of big spenders. Let's make them squeal.

I think I can hold every portfolio - defense, finance and Foreign Ministry. I think personally I'd like the foreign office.

I think that a good portion of the 'Institutional Left' hates the building blocks of America.

I got a job with a law firm in Portland after a couple of years with Senator Muskie. But by then, my interest in politics had been sparked, through meeting Senator Muskie, through seeing what he did.

I've done 44 portraits of Obama because he's the 44th president.

I've been a conservative my whole life. There is nothing hard-right or far-right about anything. I just believe in ideas and that ideas matter in history, and that's my background, and that's the way I'd like to be portrayed.

Funny enough though, despite what Donald Trump has to say and the way African-American people are portrayed so often in media, African-American people can have a leaning to be very conservative.

I don't want to pose either with Obama or with Merkel.

Basically the real decision making in the Labour party is old white men, assisted by young, posh men.

I'm the female Bob Woodward! If I were a liberal, I couldn't write another book. I'd be so busy collecting awards! I'd be posing for the cover of 'Vanity Fair!'

The Democratic position seems to be everything is going to be free. Free education. Free health care. Free housing. Free love. Free kittens, I don't know.

But for 30 years, Orthodox leaders have tipped the balance between hawks and doves, and have been in a position to determine who forms a coalition and who runs the country.