Quotes About Politics

I've always been interested in local politics. I never rule anything out, but I have a very full life right now, with a very young daughter. I have a lot that I want to do still with my career... I can't imagine that would be a possibility for a long time.

Right now, we have no possibility of politics because we have a one-party state.

I have a problem with Mitt Romney. And it's big problem - one that extends beyond our ideological differences. My big concern is that Mitt Romney wants to become president for no other reason than because there's a possibility he can win.

For future politics, I don't know what it holds, but if there's a possibility that the people want me to do another political office, again, maybe I'll do it.

Baltimore is a city of possibility, and we've got to challenge the traditional pathways of politics and politicians who lay those paths.

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

I think it's possible to have a conservative serve in a cardinal position, a subcommittee chair position, and be very effective.

No errors of opinion can possibly be dangerous in a country where opinion is left free to grapple with them.

You have to take positions on bills. There is no button for maybe or possibly.

It's foolish to call Chanakya an Indian Machiavelli. Rather, Machiavelli was possibly an Italian Chanakya.

I felt that politics was one place where I could possibly have a career in arguing, debating, and getting to write papers. I almost considered working in law enforcement or something like that, but that didn't really last long.

If 'The New York Times' didn't exist, CNN and MSNBC would be a test pattern. 'The Huffington Post' and everything else is predicated on 'The New York Times'. It's a closed circle of information from which Hillary Clinton got all her information - and her confidence.

For any party or alliance, it is imperative to get at least 272 Lok Sabha seats to claim the PM's post.

I will never go to the Centre. I have never been an aspirant for any post or for any role at the Centre.

We can never imagine anyone else other than Rahul Gandhi in the post of the president of the Congress.

I have no doubt that Glenn Kessler is a nice guy, but the job of 'fact' 'checking' the Washington Post's ally Joe Biden will not rest with anyone so politically biased in his favor. It just won't.

The way Bhagwant Mann was reprimanded by Kejriwal at the time of his being made state president - with the condition that if he's found drinking he will be removed from the party's top post, and later Mann saying that he will step down if caught drinking - was not the right way of saying things.

Of course, mankind would not have landed on the Moon in 1969, were it not for two things: conquered Nazi rocket technology and post-war anti-Communist paranoia in the United States.

The only time that Labour has convincingly come from opposition to win has been in 1997 in the post-war period. And to do that we had to tack quite substantially to the right.

I think that if the Postal Service dies, it will be the end of democracy as we know it.

I never got to see inside No 10, but I did once go to Ann Widdecombe's ministerial office under the Commons where she sat framed by two posters on her wall, one featuring a Technicolor foetus in an anti-abortion message, the other Garfield the Cat wryly musing, 'The Diet Starts... Tomorrow.'

Many Americans, we know, are horrified by the posture of their government but seem to be helpless.

Politics is a potent way to empower women.

Rick Santorum has so much potential and so much eagerness to serve our country.