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Quotes About Politics

To fix our immigration system, we must change our leadership in Washington and we must change it quickly. Sadly, sadly there is no other way.
~ Donald Trump
Mao is the only real Marxist at the leadership level in the post-Marx period.
~ Paul Sweezy
The House Republican leadership has simply run out of ideas.
~ Jan Schakowsky
Under my leadership the Liberal Democrats would not be making polite interjections from the sidelines, we would be hammering on the doors of power.
~ Menzies Campbell
It isn't personal per se to document what the Republican Party leadership is doing and how they're abrogating actual leadership.
~ Rush Limbaugh
In my view it is better for the Labour Party, the leadership and the new prime minister that he be given the maximum flexibility.
~ John Richard Reid
[George W. Bush] has balls. And he's a leader. Unfortunately his balls and leadership are in the service of shitty ideas. We need his balls on someone who thinks right.
~ Bill Maher
I am happy for there to be a leadership contest. I think there should be.
~ Gordon Brown
In terms of the principles of politics, I think I understand well. Thailand needs someone who has leadership, who has the management skills to help the country.
~ Yingluck Shinawatra
Persistence in a single view has never been regarded as a merit in political leaders.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Everybody in the world is capable of democratic development. Some people in the world are unlucky enough to get stuck with really bad political leadership and with really bad political institutions.
~ Condoleezza Rice
Jeb Bush is my friend. I think he'd make a great president. I've nudged him for some time.
~ John Boehner
From her character in the HBO miniseries: "The art of politics is the art of applying the seat of the britches to the seat of the chair.
~ Abigail Adams
In Pierre Elliott Trudeau Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination.
~ Irving Layton
The best hope for Australia is the ballot box and good education.
~ John Monash
Texas Senator Ted Cruz said if elected president he would abolish the Department of Education. But not to worry. He promised to replace it with the less expensive Bureau of Book Learning.
~ Conan O'Brien
Legal immigration is a process. You learn everything about the people coming in. You find out how many of 'em are prone to vote Republican. You don't ask 'em this; you just learn.
~ Rush Limbaugh
Political corruption works by having an equally corrupt legal system to protect it.
~ Steven Magee
Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.
~ Mark Twain
Nationalism: One of the effective ways in which the modern man escapes life's ethical problems.
~ Reinhold Niebuhr
Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.
~ Will Rogers
All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.
~ I. F. Stone
I've met enough KGB colonels in my life.
~ Garry Kasparov
The Imam throughout his life called America 'the Great Satan'. He believed that all the Muslims' problems were caused by America.
~ Ruhollah Khomeini