Quotes About Politics

Personal accountability and responsibility is dying. Long live the Democrat welfare state.

Well, I have great respect for Senator Hirono.

For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.

Crime does not pay as well as politics.

Almost everybody thinks that the fight is about ideology. Everybody will tell you, 'Well, the fighting is all about the Middle East.' 'Well, it's about Muslims starting jihad.' 'It's about terrorism.' 'It's about this or that.' And no, it's not. It's about money.

If there should prove to be one real, living Free State Democrat in Kansas, I suggest that it might be well to catch him and stuff and preserve his skin as an interesting specimen of that soon-to-be-extinct variety of the genus Democrat.

We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.

I'm not saying that all politicians are awful. I don't know any of them well enough to say whether they're awful or not. But almost every day, you find out something about them that's appalling. Maybe we shouldn't be surprised any longer.

Once your name becomes well known, politicians come courting.

Every policy is shaped by two forces: background analysis and foreground politics. The political forces are loud, self-serving and, in the case of energy policy, well known.

It's pretty well known that the CIA has been installing friendly dictators around the world for years.

My father became the first Cuban Mayor of Miami in 1985 when I was eight years old, so I got to see up close someone who immigrated to the U.S., was raised and educated up north, and then came down to Miami and struggled to get elected. It wasn't easy for him because he wasn't well known and there had never been a Cuban Mayor in Miami.

Perhaps our own opposition to even the level of European integration we have now, let alone any more, is well known.

You've got two people that are well known in South Dakota, respected. We'll see how it all shakes out.

President Obama was well known for his interfering in Justice Department matters.

It's not a vast right-wing conspiracy. It's a right-wing conglomerate. It's more sophisticated, it's well-financed, it's well known.

For an incumbent like a president, who's been in the news every day, their family, they're well known.

The Obama administration's hostility to school choice programs is well known.

I believe that the way politics has been done in the country is wrong. It has always been based on alliances that don't have the well-being of the people as their first priority.

My main thing is obviously mental health and well-being, and then my second passion would be politics; the third would be fashion.

For thousands of years, until about 1850, you see humans accumulating more and more power by the invention of new technologies and by new systems of organization in the economy and in politics, but you don't see any real improvement in the well-being of the average person.

We need a leader who puts the health and well-being of the country ahead of 2016 politics.

Historically, corporate aversion to politics has at times held firm even under national leadership that threatens the health of the economy, and with it the well-being of every company.

While women's healthcare extends far beyond reproductive healthcare, its politicization is harming women's overall health and well-being.