Quotes About Politics

All politics to me - Indian or white - is an illusion preventing us from being authentic because we're communicating through something that isn't real to us.

A lot of what is preventing us from getting things done on the federal level is that there is too much influence from special interests over members of Congress.

Let's face it, the Obama administration was handed a pretty poor deal from the previous administration.

Previous presidents, including great ones like Roosevelt, have used the IRS against their enemies. But I don't think Barack Obama ever wanted to be on the same page as Richard Nixon.

War is party-blind. It doesn't care who is in the Oval Office. The forces that drive us to war don't care whether it's Republican, Democrat, or other. The fact is, these parties are prey to special interests. That is something Eisenhower was afraid of.

All I ask is that you not be naive about how the government works when it decides to go after its prey.

For me, it is becoming increasingly clear that the price of unregulated globalisation, mass immigration and the free movement of labour is paid for by the lower classes.

And in Canada we, you know, it costs us three or $400 million to have an election. You know, it's always been my position that we shouldn't complain about that; that's the price of admission for a living in a great democracy.

I don't think for a minute we went to Iraq for oil. It just so happened that it had oil. But I think we'll come out of the Iraqi situation with a call on their oil at market price.

We've passed an energy bill in the House, to help us be less reliant upon foreign oil so we can get gas prices down. But nothing happens in the Senate.

I think blaming the president for high gas prices is like blaming Rudy Giuliani for 9/11.

While millionaire Liberals like Justin Trudeau may want higher gas prices, hardworking Canadian families definitely do not.

Modi's masterstroke has always been to blur the battlelines and construct an artificial enemy one that plays into primal instincts of pride and insecurity.

President Nixon has lost his effectiveness as the leader of this country, primarily because he has lost the confidence of the people.

FreedomWorks, which is funded primarily by very rich people, solicits donations from non-rich conservative people. More than 80,000 people donated money to FreedomWorks in 2012, and it seems likely that only a small minority of those people were hedge fund millionaires.

The politics of partisanship and the resulting inaction and excuses have paralyzed decision-making, primarily at the federal level, and the big issues of the day are not being addressed, leaving our future in jeopardy.

My problem anywhere is the damn Republicans closed out the independents from being able to vote in the primary.

You know, this is not about endorsements in the primary. We have to get through a primary first.

In New York, we had primary elections for mayor. To improve their chances, all five candidates changed their name to Rudy Giuliani.

I could have possibly beaten Senator McCain in the primary. Then I could have been the candidate who lost to Barack Obama.

The extremists took over the primary process.

A competitive primary does not divide us, it prepares us and we will win.

A small number of people and groups control the Democratic primary.

The elites have become international, and they've ceased to have a primary loyalty to the nation-state.