Quotes About Politics

I think the Iraq War is not particularly tailored to American interests.

Each state is a unique laboratory of democracy, and California Republicans need to create a party tailored to the people of California.

Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.

In all the things I've gone through as a politician, I have seen that in this system it is really very difficult to make any headway without being somehow tainted. And let me say, 'Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.'

Do we want someone as secretary of state that is somehow tainted in this Benghazi issue?

Taiwan is an independent sovereign country.

We will never allow anybody to separate Taiwan from China.

The majority of Taiwan people cannot accept Taiwan becoming a second Hong Kong, nor can we accept Taiwan becoming a local government of the People's Republic of China or a Special Administrative Region of China.

I have spent time discussing the American political system and current events in Taiwan with the junior diplomats, and they have repeatedly expressed their country's desire to avoid confrontation with China.

Taiwan is democratic.

Taiwan's democracy has grown very fast and we enjoy a certain degree of freedom, as other developed democracies like the United States.

The election of the nationalist Chen Shui-bian as president in 2000 and his re-election in 2004 was a nadir in the relationship between Taiwan and the mainland.

There is a great deal of concern in the Chinese military that Taiwan's reunification with China is drifting further and further away.

People movements have heralded a new era of Taiwan politics.

We have to convince mainland China that a free and democratic Taiwan is more in China's interest than reunification.

Free nations of the world cannot allow Taiwan, a beacon of democracy, to be subdued by an authoritarian China.

Taiwan politics certainly is colorful.

For many Taiwanese, almost all Taiwanese, we'd like to we say we are a country, and we have a sovereignty of our own.

Bill Bradley is a serious politician and if Al Gore stumbles seriously, then Bradley is there to take advantage of that.

These political consultants love business guys who've never been in politics to try and take advantage of them. I get that.

One fundamental issue which Trump did take advantage of was the increasing disparities of income in the United States. So many people saw the rich getting richer and it not being spread around. It's affecting European politics, too, now.

I'm very political and I'm not ashamed of it, and I think having the platform I have, I want to take advantage of that.

With Biden, who knows if he even knows what he's saying. The last thing we need is for our adversaries to take advantage of how little control he has over his own faculties.

The problem is that the U.S. government is the biggest debtor in the world, and those depending on it to take care of them will only become poorer.