Quotes About Politics

Democracy in some ways is a very illogical political system. When you win an election, you have to preserve the institutions that would make it possible for your political enemies to win next time. If you think about it, that's almost antithetical to human nature.

Economic freedom cannot be sacrificed if political freedom is to be preserved.

People of all political persuasions - conservatives, moderates, and liberals alike - need to dedicate themselves once again to preserving the moral foundation of our society.

I think maybe the people in elected positions are more interested in preserving their jobs than in doing the best job possible.

Now that Donald Trump has won the presidency despite losing the popular vote, there's a growing cry to rethink, or even abolish, the electoral college. This would be a mistake.

I think to be very blunt about it, in a lot of that support is a desire for convergence of a black skin with the United States Presidency, with power on that level - the idea is that to have a black in that office leading a largely white country would be redemptive for America.

The Left is deeply invested in Obama's presidency; they believe he's too important, symbolically, to fail.

If Comrade Bernie Sanders were to ever win the presidency, it's game over for our country, for our economy, for our future and for our children's future.

When you see how the President makes political or policy decisions, you see who he is. The essence of the Presidency is decision-making.

No feature of the Obama presidency has been sadder than its constant efforts to divide us, to curry favor with some Americans by castigating others.

So when they don't have certainty, they go the other way. In Ohio, we have given them certainty and things have been improved. But if we can get a Romney presidency, they are going to get much better.

You don't run for the presidency out of nostalgia.

Well, let me just say - I mean, I'm not a person who's going to vote for any of the potential Republican nominees for the presidency of the United States.

It is not patriotic to decide to destroy a new president who was duly elected by an overwhelming margin. It is un-patriotic to resolve to destroy that presidency.

I think when a campaign is dishonest in the ads they run about another candidate, it diminishes the campaign, it diminishes the candidate, and it diminishes the presidency.

I think that all politicians who aspire to the presidency are a little nuts, but for different reasons. What kind of person aspires to be the most powerful person in the world? The answer is someone with an internal drive that is so dynamic and so determined.

The presidency of the United States is not some crown to be passed between two families.

There is no basis to say I'm being coy about running for president. If I chose to explore the presidency, I wouldn't do it in a backward way. I'll say, 'I'm exploring the presidency.'

Each day of the Obama presidency seems to bring a new, perversely delicious irony.

If you are running for the presidency of the United States, you better have a strong opinion.

Society leaders have urged me to seek the presidency.

After the presidency, there's nowhere else to go in politics.

The office of the presidency is what's important, no matter who's in it.

Hillary Clinton may be the most corrupt person ever to seek the presidency.