Quotes About Politics

You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.

I think people assumed because of my last name that I was a real right-winger. And if you cared to look at my writing, you would be hard pressed to deduce that I'm an ideological right-winger.

The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast.

But they were going to war anyway and they were going to bully and pressure countries to vote for it.

Perhaps no other body of literature is as subject to political pressures from within the community as gay fiction.

If you have $1 billion, you can use the Clinton Foundation as a conduit, and as it goes by, Clinton gives it his prestige.

Protestantism became identified with the republican presumption in liberty as an end in itself. This presumption was then reinforced by an unassailable belief in the common sense of the individual.

Let's face it: pop music in its myriad permutations will always be sexually presumptuous, racially controversial and, frequently, politically charged.

I want a politics that doesn't need to pretend to be holy or perfect or infallible. I want a politics that gets on with it.

I was never a left-winger, actually. I was a pretend left-winger because it was more interesting than being a right-winger.

Ed Miliband is obviously a mild guy. I don't expect him to pretend to be a pugilist.

Let's not pretend we have too much of a democracy here, because we don't.

Politicians pretend not to be smart.

I can't pretend to being particularly happy about Jeremy Corbyn being leader of the Labour party.

Women - whether in politics, media or business - can't have it both ways. We can't demand to be judged irrespective of our gender if we also plan to manipulate our sexual identity to our advantage. We can't both play the game and pretend to be sitting it out. We can't deliberately act 'female' and complain about male bias.

To pretend that former President Donald Trump's Republican Party will act in good faith to preserve democracy is naive.

This game of pretending that to be Never Trump doesn't lead to a President Hillary Clinton has to end.

Stop pretending journalists are anything other than the Hillary PR team.

It's important to remember that, in the 1930s, a lot of people in the West looked at communism as a pretty good idea. That was partly because they didn't know how bad things were on the communist side of the world, but it was also partly because things were bad in the West.

I actually had a dream that one of my friends became president, and I was trying to help out with the campaign. It was pretty good.

I think I'd make a pretty good president, and they have a great pension plan.

My college, Fitzwilliam, was pretty good but unfashionable and I lived in digs so I was not part of the cloistered 'old college' environment, which frankly was a bit intimidating. But I worked hard and settled in by exploring politics and girls.

I always feel that in politics, you have a bridle on. Well, I took the bridle off. And I tell you, it felt pretty good.

I am a pretty good lawyer, and I decided to close the office and to enter politics.