Quotes About Politics

After over 200 years, not even a fifth of Congress is women.

The people of the Fifth District of Louisiana need and deserve a voice in Washington.

If Marcos wants to aid Malaysia, that's his business, but we will continue to crush Malaysia, even if we have to fight alone.

I believe that our party, the Democratic party, must be a party that fights fire with fire.

If you're going to be a fighter, and you're going to fight for the future of this country and lead the Democratic Party, then you can't be ducking fights.

If any party fights the election on the basis of religion, it will not succeed.

I was concerned about the link between crime and politics, and I figured out the only way I could do something about it was to get into politics.

I figured there's nobody who's going to beat me or shoot me or crucify me. I can't help if people don't like me up there in Washington. I've got a district that I respect, and I think it respects me.

Mayors of New York are almost automatically national figures.

Few living figures could contribute as much as Castro to our understanding of the second half of the 20th century.

My view of the filibuster is either you've got to lower vote edge or make people really filibuster if they feel that seriously about a piece of legislation.

Republicans have used the filibuster to turn the Senate into a de facto 60-vote body.

I think I've had my fill of electoral law.

The final conflict will be between the Communists and the ex-Communists.

The nature of the final Brexit deal really matters. It is, as I have said before, the battle of our times.

Carrie Lam is a proxy leader.The final decision-maker is President Xi.

Finality is not the language of politics.

We have to talk about the way we finance campaigns.

The structure of private campaign finance has essentially pre-corrupted our politicians, so that they can't even recognize explicit bribery because it feels the same as what they do every day.

Limitation of armaments in itself is economically and financially important quite apart from security.

The Left loves to demonize the financially successful.

One of the things I care about a lot is public financing in elections.

The fine line that you do when you do political comedy is, as long as you have that laugh, you're fine.

I think one of the greatest things about the Republican Party is the understanding, we don't point fingers and we have class.