Quotes About Politics

Left-wing lesbians are perfectly natural," Giorgio says, "but there's something about a right-wing lesbian that's, I don't know…almost North American. Sort of Fox News–ish.

We go off the meds and elect Richard Nixon, the Nurse Ratched of the American political psych ward.

The mob guys know it. They know that you bribe a politician only once. After that, you blackmail him.

Everything is political," O'Brien says. "Especially these days.

The cartel has bought the White House. We've crossed the border now.

People don't usually go off decapitating each other or committing mass murder just because they hate people in another group. These things happen because soul-dead political leaders are in a struggle for power and use ethnic violence as a tool in that struggle. —David Brooks

Is the new generation of writers more concerned than their predecessors with politics, economics, and social class? I think that there are lowered expectations, not sthetic expectations for the work, but lowered expectations in terms of life. My generation, perhaps foolishly, expected, even demanded, that life be wonderful and magical and then tried to make it so by writing in a rather complex way. It seems now quite an eccentric demand.

This could blow up in everybody's faces, this could be worse than Watergate, worse than Iran-Contra, worse than the little blue dress.

Politics has clogged the air of my life.

She added, "Washington is the city of the soft heads and the chicken hearts.

Ain't no such thing as communist baseball team!

It may be that only when xenophobia stops working as an election winner will the way be cleared for a return to bipartisanship

27 per cent of Canadians think that Ottawa deals with issues that are important to them.

today influence belongs to a carefully selected handful of partisan advisors and senior deputy ministers.

Canadians believe that MPs do a better job pursuing the interest of their political parties than of those they represent,

Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.

All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.

Sometimes party loyalty asks too much.

A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.

If its platform is any guide, the Republican party is staunchly pro-life until you are actually born.

Usually the nonsense liberals spout is kind of cute, but in wartime their instinctive idiocy is life-threatening.

I ran for Congress not because I was having a mid-life crisis. I left the private sector because I saw a looming financial crisis that was coming to this country. It's unsustainable.

I know how important voting and elections are. But everybody know that life is going to be life regardless of who is president.

The desire to be a politician should bar you for life from ever being one.