Quotes About Politics

English politics is so much more concerned with the proprieties than with defending dogmas.

So long as Trump says the right things at the right time to the right crowds, he'll never be held accountable for his doublespeak or for defending the very things the conservative movement has been fighting against for years.

The king of branding, Mr. Trump performs best when he is on the defense.

Deficit, deficit, deficit. The political and media elites are obsessed with the D-word.

Your goal as a candidate - define others before they can define you.

People need to understand what a party is about. And you can't define a party by an issue which will go, which is transitional.

We are more and more defined not by our friends but our political enemies - collecting them like badges of honor.

There's this responsibility you feel to present a certain thing that kind of respectability politics. I think that became the only accepted way of defining black culture. I started to become too aware of 'How does this look?' instead of 'Who are these characters?'

We need to make people understand that there is a definite connection between what happens in their everyday lives and the decisions we make in Washington, D.C.

I think politics is definitely something that I've always thought about as a career.

Somebody's going to have to come up with a definition of what the alt-right is.

The lunatic racist left is starting to lose. So, as is always the case, change the rules of the game, obfuscate, argue about definitions.

If anyone was going to write the definitive account of what the 2008 election meant for women, it would be Rebecca Traister.

Running for office is important, and you don't really need more than to be right on the issues, and to be able to articulate what it is you believe. You don't need a certain background. You don't need to be a lawyer. You don't need to have some professional degree.

There's a lot of bipartisan rancor, a lot of excessive delegation of legislative power from the legislative branch to the executive branch.

Doing politics over water is not good as people from Punjab and Haryana are also our own like that of Delhi. Everyone should get water.

I am working as BJP President in Delhi. I earn money by singing, acting, dancing etc. I have a brand value.

Delhi is bleeding, while the government spends money on ads.

Like Narendra Modi-Amit Shah's jodi in Delhi, Sanjay Tandon and I have a jodi in Chandigarh.

So a lot of our shows where even we think we've taken a very deliberate stand, liberals say, 'That's awesome, you took on the conservatives' same show and conservatives say 'That's awesome, you took on liberals.'

It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.

We have a country that is in a very delicate situation.

Oh, what could be more delicious than replacing Chuck Grassley on the Senate Agriculture Committee?

Americans like to say we're fighting for democracy, and yet young Americans have come to the view that democracy doesn't deliver.