Quotes About Politics

Instead of taking environmentalism away from the left, conservatives condemn it as a counsel of doom.

There is no evidence that Republican leaders have been demonstrably dumber than their Democratic counterparts.

I'm going to try to make happy songs or some political songs, like 'A Country Boy Can Survive' - something people can get excited about.

I beg you do not vote for stills and open bar-rooms in the county.

A country is not managed through cousins and confidants.

I covered the 2016 campaign and covered that in a very traditional way. I was on the road, I want to say, like 340 days out of the year.

I'm covering the worst president in American history.

One of the unique things about covering politics in America is that I've gotten to see a lot of corners of this country that I never would've gotten to see. It turns out that there are a lot of really beautiful places in corners of America you wouldn't necessarily expect.

Brexit - I was sick of it when it was all happening. It's off the news now, but when Covid settles down it will just come back again.

I am such a coward when it comes to political arguments. I tend to sort of recoil rather than engage.

The establishment, rigged, cozy system inside the beltway is not America.

I always thought communism was crap, really.

Civil religion is the attempt to empower religion, not for the good of religion, but for the creation of the citizen.

There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity.

I am a salesman, I am an executive, I look at budgets, I think about power politics, but then I am also a creative person.

That Obama creature - loathsome individual - he couldn't stand our country.

Basically what they're saying is, if you want to be on TV, if you want to be a credible candidate, you've got to buy ads. And if you're not buying ads, you're not a credible candidate, we don't cover you.

Generally, people who crib about corporate politics are, more often than not, those who've played the game but lost it.

The reason that I decided to get into politics is because I have begged, pleaded, and cried for years for our government to listen to us and they haven't.

Liberalism has never done as well as it thinks at resolving its own crises.

Capitalism is in crisis.

I think the idea of getting money out of politics is critical.

You have no right to criticise Russia over Chechnya.

When I was in the PMO, Digvijaya Singh used to call me whenever he wanted to see the PM. He used to go through me. He is under compulsion to criticise me, but I am under no compulsion to criticise him.