Quotes About Politics

I was quite young when my dad went into politics but, as it went on, I became self-conscious about it.

Abduction was what it felt like on first listening to Public Enemy. Like the post-punks, Public Enemy implicitly accepted the idea that a politics which came reassuringly dressed in established forms would be self-defeating.

Washington has always had a pretty healthy amount of self-loathing.

The idea of self-reliance is important to me, and that is echoed, in my way of thinking, by a conservative approach to politics.

The Alternative Vote is sectarian and self-serving and it will not improve people's lives.

We are losing the democracy that we're trying to sell in the Mideast and everywhere else right here in our own nation.

Hate sells.

I was down to an 11-handicap before running for the Senate.

In the Senate, I will put people before politics.

If I wanted to be president of the United States, I'd run for the Senate in 1986. And I'm just not going to do it.

I didn't get to the Senate by accident.

The Senate is an unknowing world.

The U.S. Senate already has one Arlen Specter too many.

I'm interested in being part of a majority in the Senate.

There are times where the dysfunction in the Senate just goes too far.

Our responsibility is to focus on the House. The Senate's the Senate.

Running for Senate is a very involved process.

When I'm elected to the Senate, I will continue to meet with all Marylanders, whether we agree on every issue or not.

I was appointed to the Senate, and it has been my job to serve in the Senate and then to earn the vote of Minnesotans.

I left my business to run for the Senate because I believe the government needs to run more like a business.

I'm running for Senate to create real change in Washington, which starts with getting big money out of politics and overturning Citizens United.

I don't have any interest in running for the Senate.

Minnesotans know the difference between the job of satirist and the job of senator. And so do I.

Senator Rubio and I don't agree on everything.