Quotes About Politics

Much like CBS and CNN are run by liberal billionaires, Sinclair is run by a rich conservative, so there are natural questions to be asked, especially when Sinclair is poised to become such a powerhouse.

We know that Brexit would make our poorest communities poorer still. That it would make the powerless even less able to effect change.

The office of the president is the most powerful in the world. It is also, at times, the most powerless.

If we give up on politics, we're done for. Powerlessness is a self-fulfilling prophesy.

I do not accept the right of big powers to change governments as and when it affects their interests.

Why four great powers should fight over Serbia no fellow can understand.

War expands government powers. The trouble is that, when the war goes away, the government powers do not.

I firmly believe that Scotland's place is in the U.K., and I do not believe in powers for power's sake.

On the island of Ireland the issue of the border is more than just a practical issue; it is about emotion, history and politics.

We Conservatives need to be practical and consistent, not to over-promise. This makes byelections more difficult, but general elections winnable.

Abu Mazen has deprived himself of all the practical authorities of government.

The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.

The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.

If I say I am not a politician, it is because I did not go to school to do political science. But at the end of the day, I think we are all born politicians. It's practical. All you gotta do is practice.

As a U.S. Senator, I've tried my best to practice politics the way I think it's supposed to be practiced - always looking for common ground and truly enjoying the people I meet along the way.

America has become amnesiac, a country in which forms of historical, political, and moral forgetting are not only willfully practiced but celebrated.

The raids on Freedom House, the National Democratic Institute and International Republican Institute, the Adenauer Foundation, and other groups helping Egyptians move toward respect for democratic politics and human rights were of a piece with the practices of Hosni Mubarak - only bolder and more repressive.

The democratic state can sometimes abuse its power as much as those who seek to destroy it abuse fundamental rights and democratic practices.

It's very hard to be a practicing Christian in the 21st-century world if you set things up as, 'Everyone is against us. You can't believe modern science, modern media or modern political institutions because they're all conspiring against Christians.'

I went to law school with a plan of going back home and practicing law to support my farming, and Dad said, 'There's just not room here for us.' So I took off to practice law and got involved in some politics, and the rest just moved on forward.

Newt Gingrich's rhetorical tics are well-known - his fondness for the word 'frankly,' his eagerness to frame even the most mundane development in dramatic world-historical terms, and his eagerness to accuse his enemies of practicing 'machine' politics.

I think Mr. Trump is a pragmatic man; he is a businessman.

Richard Nixon was a very complex man. I don't think he was a conservative, nor liberal, not even a moderate. He was a pragmatic politician. He loved politics.

I believe that the Conservative party is at its best when it's a pro-business, pragmatic party, so to appeal to the country, and the country loses out significantly if the centre right of politics becomes much more populist, nationalist, and more right of centre.