Quotes About Politics

I'm well aware of the pragmatism of politics.

Our platform is crafted by Democrats but it is not about partisanship, its about pragmatism.

Let us now praise Barack Obama.

When a conservative praises a liberal as 'morally serious,' he means that person is less liberal than most.

If George W. Bush is the kind of person folks might like to have a beer with, John McCain is the guy you pray you don't get seated next to at a dinner party.

I'm going to pray for Donald Trump.

Bernie Sanders has never asked me, but I'm just saying if he did ask me to pray for him, I would.

When politicians send their thoughts and prayers with no action, we say, 'No more.'

Well, you know what, I'm 60 years old, and I've been interested in politics since I was on my daddy's knee. During the 1948 election, we were praying for Truman. I know a lot about politics.

I love England. I live and work here. My children have grown up here. I see no conflict between this and praying that my countrymen in Scotland never have to live another day under Conservative rule from London.

The president is being denounced for not taking the kind of pre-emptive action in Afghanistan that he has been so passionately denounced for taking in Iraq. Damned if he does and damned if he doesn't.

Any politician is to a certain degree a mentor. They preach something.

Do you think it's possible to discuss politics without preaching?

I'm a big believer in,'If anyone can understand my politics, I've failed.' If you can get a sense of which side of the fence I'm on, then I'm not doing a service. I'm preaching, and that's not my job.

If we can take Harry Reid out, we can take our country back. I'm not here to preach to the choir. I'm here to organize the army.

In our pugilistic take-no-prisoners era, preaching grace toward those on the other side of the political fence is decidedly countercultural.

Rap is good for politics because when you make a rap record, you put good music on a track and people listen to you. It's easier than trying to preach.

You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy.

I'm not the kind of writer who's able to block out the world around me. I'm mindful of our own haves and have-nots, how our culture often blames and punishes the have-nots. I worry about our precarious economic and political climate.

Cultural change always precedes political change.

The American Right has an amazing ability to lionize leaders whose lives are the precise antithesis of the political values that define their image.

The great advantage of the Lib Dems is precisely that no-one knows what they stand for.

Around the nation, lawmakers have drawn up their districts with such perverse precision and aversion to competition, that legislators rarely face competitive challenges.

Boris Johnson needs to be challenged, with passion, heart and precision.