Quotes About Politics

Any party that would put Sarah Palin up on a pedestal will never have my support.

It's all a sham: I have seen, and I know firsthand, indeed from my own pen, how the organized Right has sabotaged not only journalism but also democracy and truth.

Marine Le Pen belongs to her generation, I belong to mine. I got into politics for Marine Le Pen and with her as party leader.

I'm fighting for Marine Le Pen to become president.

As bad as the Obama administration is at trying to legislate without legislators, all too often, Congress is responsible for handing them the 'pen and phone.'

I am proud to wear the name Le Pen.

Le Pen is old; I'm young.

Pennsylvania is a very tough state; people don't last long in Pennsylvania politics.

Pennsylvania is one of the most important states in the country when it comes to the election of the president of the United States.

I'm a Western Pennsylvania Democrat.

I really don't care what Patrick J. Toomey says or does because Patrick J. Toomey couldn't get reelected in Pennsylvania, and that's why he's out.

Biden is supposed to be the commander-in-chief, but he forgot the name of the Pentagon, the Department of Defense, and the Secretary of Defense.

George Bush doesn't care about black people.

Whenever people say, 'You should be president,' I say, 'I thought you liked me.' Listen, I thought being mayor of Stamford was a wonderful job. Being governor of a state for a period of time is a wonderful job, and I'm not sure I'm at all attracted to Washington.

Some people say I chastise the Republican Party too much.

Sometimes people say I'm a political comedian, which, actually I'm not. I'm a comedian who sometimes discusses politics, culture - again, the word 'politics' to me is just life.

You know, one of the things my husband says when people say 'Well, what did you bring to Washington,' he said, 'Well, I brought arithmetic.'

Quite often you hear people say, 'What about separation of church and state?' There is no such thing.

Africa has more dictators per capita than any other continent.

In life and in politics, it's helpful to try to perceive the other person through the most generous lens.

Look, does gender play a part in how people perceive Hillary Clinton? Yes. But it's also not the reason people criticize her about the emails or Benghazi.

That Newt Gingrich or any mainstream Republican has the nerve to look down from what they perceive as their moral mountaintop at anyone is laughable.

The Republican Party is obsessed with what the media thinks of them, obsessed with what the Democrats who are perceived to run that town think of them. And it's paralysis.

The U.S. used to be perceived as the moral leader of the world, and we have absolutely lost that.