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Quotes About Politics

Try to think for your own why the Russians and the Chinese do not like the idea that whoever takes aggressive steps to keep order within his sovereign borders should not accept others to intervene physically.
~ Ehud Barak
You draw a district for that particular minority - African American, Asian, Hispanic - so those folks have the right to elect whoever they want. If they don't decide to elect someone who sounds like them or looks like them, they can pick anyone they want.
~ Gene Green
Forget politics and what their platforms were and everything, because you can take whoever you want to take, but the guy that I liked was Nixon... He was a smart man.
~ Terry Bradshaw
My real baby is renewable energy. I feel like whoever starts to crack this nut is going to have a pretty clear shot at the White House. It's a $2 trillion business that America's being left out of.
~ Mark Ruffalo
I think a 'no' vote is giving the victor, whoever that may be, the win without your participation.
~ Cory Gardner
The people, as much as it's fun to hate us, they need us. They need good, strong, skeptical journalists to be covering whoever it is - whether it's Barack Obama or President Donald Trump.
~ Megyn Kelly
Will I support our president, whoever that might be? Absolutely. Did I vote for Donald Trump? Absolutely.
~ Pam Bondi
We will, of course, work with whoever Americans decide to elect as president.
~ Leo Varadkar
Whoever is running the country should not be in the pay of a foreign interest. The best way is to see tax returns.
~ Bill Foster
'Saturday Night Live' has always been, you know, non-partisan - whoever's in power should probably be challenged.
~ Lorne Michaels
If I'm not the Democratic nominee, I'm gonna get out there and work for whoever the Democratic nominee is, because I believe they will be better than the alternative.
~ Andrew Gillum
I've still got a bit of angst about campaigning for a particular party. I want to write jokes about whoever I want without toeing a party line.
~ Nish Kumar
Whatever is going on in the news and whoever is in the spotlight is up for grabs and fodder for satire.
~ Randy Rainbow
I believe whoever is in the White House, God is in charge. That's me. And I voiced that on TV.
~ Ernie Johnson Jr.
I think during a campaign it's perfectly OK to do what you need to do. But then the idea, I would argue is for former presidents to fall in line and do the best they can to support the current president, whoever that might be.
~ Michael Capuano
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
~ H. L. Mencken
There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.
~ Mao Zedong
The whole world is run on bluff.
~ Marcus Garvey
There is no state with a democracy except Libya on the whole planet.
~ Muammar al-Gaddafi
The real point is that totalitarian regimes have claimed jurisdiction over the whole person, and the whole society, and they don't at all believe that we should give unto Caesar that which is Caesar's and unto God that which is God's.
~ Jeane Kirkpatrick
Although... the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures, yet in his official action he should not be the President of a party only, but of the whole people of the United States.
~ James K. Polk
Yes, in the commercial world there's room for both McDonald's and Whole Foods, but in the realm of politics, we're told, it's either Filet-o-Fish or line-caught salmon: only one can prevail - and which is up to you.
~ Walter Kirn
I was wholeheartedly attracted to the conservative atmosphere that permeated the city of Washington.
~ John Podhoretz
I am wholeheartedly in favour of an independent Scotland.
~ Ken Stott