Quotes About Politics

Politics aside, you look at Barack Obama, he is ripped.

I think President Barack Obama has been a good president.

I've got to say that I don't see myself as some sort of political type like Alec Baldwin or Barbra Streisand. I don't want to come across like that. I'd be embarrassed if that was the way I came across.

You don't go to some other country and bash our president.

When someone says, 'I'm not political,' I feel like what they're saying is, 'I only care about myself. In my bathtub. Me and my bathtub is what I care about.'

I would love to just write and not have everything I say or do turn into a political battle.

It is part of our political thinking that democracy is a battle of ideas.

I got active in this business of politics and self-government in 1958 when my father, who was serving in the U.S. Army, took us to the battlefield of Verdun.

If people are interested in changing the direction of the country, Iowa is the battleground.

In 2016, Trump won by winning battleground states that few expected him to win.

Battles in the Legislature can be tough.

It would be nice if we could clear up the nominations that are still out there, and there are a lot of them.

Trump has learned over his long career as a lying liar who lies that none of his stories have to be true.

Doing things right in politics is no different than doing things right in life: Tell the truth, be yourself.

Sometimes good countries are so traumatized by events that they lose their bearings and embrace bad leaders.

Personally, I think what's happening in my beautiful country is embarrassing, but I also know that Trump doesn't speak for the majority of us.

Usually if you're a woman in Trump's bedroom, the only document you need is a nondisclosure agreement.

I ain't got no beef with Obama.

I believe Huckabee should have run again in 2012. Everyone was begging for him to do so. He beat Romney in 2008, and I believe he would have done it again in 2012.

I begin to feel like I was in the last generation of Americans who took a civics class.

For me, it all begins with faith; it begins with what matters most, and I try and put what I believe to be moral truth first. My philosophy of government second. And my politics third.

We live in an 'eventocracy'. This is a new form of democracy where there is nothing greater than the event. Any policy announcement has so many events that people have begun to believe in the arrival of an avatar.

My character and my behavior is not for politics. I say what I think. I'm too liberal.

I don't like outside group ads. I don't like attack ads. I particularly don't like them now that I'm in the process and they are being used against me.