Quotes About Politics

I tell people in Washington that I'm not the most progressive person in my district and they are shocked.

My dad was Republican his whole life until he turned 65 and became like a born-again Democrat. And now he's a progressive, fire-breathing Democrat, and the evolution makes us all laugh.

We can dig ourselves out of the ditch that the progressives and Obama-ites have driven us into.

I sometimes think, as bad as things seem for progressives in this world in the Trump era, it's worse than we think it is.

Progressives think the way to win is mobilizing and convince people to vote for something.

Progressivism is the cancer in America and it is eating our Constitution, and it was designed to eat the Constitution, to progress past the Constitution.

You think you can govern separate from our Constitution? That's the foundation of progressivism right there, folks.

As members of the military, Coast Guardsmen are prohibited from wading into politics.

Just two words are enough to drive away the DMK members from the House. They are running away at the mention of 'Katchatheevu' or 'prohibition.'

We are the party of the Czechoslovak proletariat and our general headquarters are in Moscow.

I've never been interested in self-promotion and that side of politics; and if that means people judge that you're less prominent than others, that's a choice I've been willing to make.

I can do an hour-long speech about Democrats taking African Americans for granted, and I'd have a line behind me of very prominent African-Americans who would say, 'Amen.'

Yes, I will promise you anything your little elector heart desires... Of course, I have no intention of keeping any promise I make.

Donald Trump may not speak explicitly of 'who we are,' but with his promise to make America great again, he engages in his own kind of identity politics, signaling that the nation has lost its sense of self. That gets to people.

I mean, look, Nancy Pelosi said in the very beginning this is going to be the most open, honest and ethical Congress in history. And what we're seeing is she's breaking that promise every day.

When I got into politics, it was a shock. People promise all sorts of things and then never deliver.

When people campaign for positions, they promise people all kinds of things.

In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep.

I promise that if there was no Hillary Clinton, there would still be a 'Commander in Chief' - I want to have a hit show that people enjoy, and really, that's it.

As leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, I commit to work with all Conservatives to live up to the promise of our great country.

I'm running for governor to fulfill California's promise.

We have promised to do better, and no Republican concern should ever be enough to filibuster our own bill.

Trump promised to bring back jobs. He promised to lower drug prices for so many Kentuckians. And that is very important.

For a person who promised hope and civility in politics, Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiveness in blaming Mr. Bush.