Quotes About Politics

To the credit of the Republican Party and the conservative movement, people have been expelled or marginalized. Pat Buchanan in the '90s. Ron Paul, Rand Paul in the first decade of this century. Bill Buckley famously expelled the Birchers in 1964. It's been a movement that's tried to maintain its boundaries.

I am Jim Gray, and I am the guy who is going to beat Rand Paul.

I've got to say, I'm a Rand Paul fan.

For too long, Paul LePage tried to stand in the way of getting things done in Maine.

2017 may have been that year when identity politics hit a brick wall - and slumped limply on the pavement.

We need to start talking, to each other, about the issues that matter most. Otherwise, we are just pawns in the game of politics.

Renzi is a pawn. Renzi is a dumb slave at the disposal of nameless people who want to control all of our lives from Brussels.

Politics are the same old thing. We elect people, we put them in office, and guess what they do? They sell us out. They sell us down the river, and we pay for it.

I pay attention to politics and technology.

I kinda halfway paid attention to politics during my early years, but the older you get, the more you realize it's very important to pay attention to who gets elected. They can ruin the country.

The problem... is that most members of Congress don't pay attention to what's going on.

If you're going to get elected to anything in Mississippi, you have to pay attention to and court the black vote.

I'm outraged that we're building roads, schools, and hospitals in Iraq and Afghanistan, and that we're doing it with borrowed money from China that we're paying interest on. I'm outraged.

Of course the Liberal Democrats are going to say things to try and get attention - but I don't think the country is paying much attention.

Many women feel they can't afford their lives; their husbands can't afford to be paying for the family bills. Hillary Clinton is guilty of being part of the establishment that created that problem.

It seems like the richer you are, the more chance you have of paying less tax.

Sharad Pawar is paying tax.

Just because I am paying attention to politics and culture doesn't mean that I should be talking about the health-care bill, talking about the minutiae.

Rightly or wrongly, as a woman in politics, you're being judged for what you're wearing, and people are paying attention to that more than they do with men.

Especially in local elections, because hardly anybody pays attention to those - but it's really important who's mayor and who's on the city council, county commissioners, sheriffs, district attorney, and of course the school board.

Hardly anybody in America pays attention to local elections.

Elected officials want to paint everyone with a broad brush. What they don't get is that everyone pays bills. Liberal activists pay bills. Conservative activists pay bills. Independents pay bills.

We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant's revolution, but one of the extreme Right.

The sophisticates of Java, the traders of Sumatra, the peasants from the outer islands found no common ground. During siesta time from one to five, the Islamic group met separately, the Nationalist group met separately, the Federalist and Unitarians met separately.