Quotes About Politics

My old boss, former British prime minister David Cameron, thought Obama was one of the most narcissistic, self-absorbed people he'd ever dealt with.

I left the Labour Party because I consider it a racist endeavour. I could no longer, in good faith, knock on doors and say vote for me, and by extension get Jeremy Corbyn as Prime Minister.

Vallabhbhai Patel was known as the Iron Man of India, and it is said that if he was the Prime Minister then the issue of Kashmir wouldn't have come about. And if Savarkar was the Prime Minister, Pakistan wouldn't have come into existence.

To the prime minister, Justin Trudeau, you are no ally and you are no feminist.

I am going to be prime minister.

I want to become prime minister.

Please remember, Modi as a Prime Minister has destroyed the economy through demonetisation and GST.

I completely believe in the leadership and vision of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and it is because of this that I have joined the BJP.

I thought I would be Prime Minister.

As far as I know, Kamala Haasan does not choose the prime minister of this country.

You don't try and put rockets under prime ministers.

When dealing with American politics, you try to follow the money, and that's where it leads you. It doesn't take you to the electoral college or to Princeton. It takes you down the darker alleys of American life.

There is more selfishness and less principle among members of Congress than I had any conception of, before I became President of the U.S.

We don't need bipartisanship, we need application of principle.

I'm a principle liberty, rule-of-law Conservative.

Elections should highlight principled disagreements, but they must not obscure our capacity to cooperate for the common good.

Jeremy Corbyn is a principled Labour man.

U.S. lawmakers should take a firm and principled stand consistent with their rhetoric about the importance of human rights and democracy in Egypt.

The people I like most are the people who are principled enough on both the right and the left to believe it is their duty to advocate, even though they may lose, and are not committed to their incumbency over the future of America.

The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles.

I don't think Trump is a conservative. I think he is a man without any fixed principles. And to the extent he does have any ideology, it owes far more to European-style National Front right-wing politics than to American conservatism.

I think it's scary that that our elected officials aren't operating under the principles of human rights, under the principles that this government and this country was founded on.

Now I call myself a bleeding heart libertarian. Because I do believe in the principles of Libertarianism as an ideal - because I'm an idealist.

I have an ethics background. It doesn't mean you're perfect. But I tried to set an entirely different bar for politics in D.C. that's based on ethics and first principles and political philosophy, and not this constant bickering of, 'Are you Right or Left?'