Quotes About Politics

Entering politics is a fate worse than death.

I didn't have any ambition to be president. It was fate. The people found me.

When anyone in Washington asks for a favor, no matter how little the favor means to you, act pained and get as much as you can in exchange - even if the person asking is the president of the United States.

Political battles are won when the rich favor them.

Marco Rubio continues to this day to be in favor of open borders.

I would never, ever trade any campaign donation - that's absurd - for some type of favor to anyone.

That is the Roman way: to give favors to the favorites.

I'm fearful the Democratic Party is already moving too far to the left. I want to push the Democratic Party to be more in touch with mainstream America, and on some issues, that's more left, and on some issues it might be more right.

Rajnath and Mulayam Singh are birds of the same feather.

I'm out of the Republican Party. I'm fed up.

Keralites have become fed up with this kind of politics that creates martyrs.

People are fed up of career politicians that keep changing like chameleons.

People are fed up of politicians who say one thing one day and another the day after.

I know many Canadians are fed up with the traditional way of doing politics.

I'm fed up with the top-down style of politics, where discussion in our party is stifled because of sectarianism and tribalism.

The level of analysis that is done when you see laws created, whether it's the city or state or federal level - it's much more horse-trading than analysis.

Everyone knows that a federal job is a lifetime job, and for many in Congress, it seems they have a lifetime job, too.

The debate on how to shrink the federal government is at the core of our problem of government not doing its job.

The federal government is way larger than it should be.

You've got the federal government in every part of our lives, doing things wrong.

As far as cutting jobs, you could cut whole agencies out of the federal government and not miss them.

It's not, 'We have a city to bid, now let's go check in with the federal government'.

Being from Arizona, the federal government is kind of a Slytherin.

At the federal level, as a member of Congress, you have one vote out of 435, and in the Senate, it's one out of 100. So, the ability to get some stuff done exists as a much larger opportunity at a local level than in the federal government.