Quotes About Politics

People are told in their churches to vote Republican. I've heard pastors say it from the evangelical pulpit. Congregants are actually told that lower taxes and less government is the Christian way.

Nigerian politics has been, since the military dictatorships, largely non-ideological. Rather than a battle of ideas, it is about who can pump in the most money and buy the most access.

Government or politics in America today is big business. Everybody makes money involving themselves in one way or the other, whether it's pollsters, whether they are policy wonks, whether they are pundits, whether they are those who believe that they must call it as they see it and then to be fair about it.

I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators 'the haute couture of language.'

Forget the consultants, the pundits and the pollsters; good policy is good politics.

For all the brave talk of Brexiteers that the E.U. needs us more than we need them, the reality is that they hold all the cards, and they are going to punish us for leaving.

The harsh reality is this: to have influence in the world, you need to be willing and able to reward your friends and punish your enemies.

If Trump loses, I think that how a lot of people are going to view it is: the deep state has won. Trump has lost. Our god, essentially, has been crucified. Trump is - for many of them - a god, and they are going to punish Democrats on the other side with political violence. That's what I see happening.

Capping our SALT deduction was a deliberate attempt to punish states that value quality public services.

This country does not punish its political enemies. What this country ensures is that no one is above the law.

I don't believe that you should punish the people of Iraq because you don't like their leader. Saddam Hussein is not being punished. He's fat, and he is eating enough food and living in palaces. But his people are punished by denying them food and medicine.

Conservative women in politics run a punishing gauntlet. They endure psychological evaluations and near-gynecological exams their male and liberal counterparts do not.

Punishing individual immigrants who are deeply embedded in American communities is not the mandate Trump was given when he was elected.

My goodness, the Democrats have just become the party of punishment, and they are carrying that to the extreme when it comes to health care.

I belong to Helmut Kohl's political pupils.

I feel like Obama's an Illuminati puppet.

Please don't begin to believe that the American political establishment is anything but a corrupt puppet of oligarchy.

What I do like about Donald Trump is that he's not bought by the lobbyists. He put up his own money, funded his own campaign. That means he's nobody's puppet.

It's better to be known as a puppet than pretend not to be a puppet like Nawaz Sharif.

Obama's just a puppet - he's a puppet in a chair.

It makes one sad to see the sell-out of President Fox; really, it makes one sad. How sad that the president of a people like the Mexicans lets himself become the puppy dog of the empire.

The bizarre world of cards is a world of pure power politics where rewards and punishments are meted out immediately.

The pure unadulterated disgust of Washington seems to me to be a really good thing.

Libertarians are constantly arguing with each other who is the most pure libertarian and who is most ideologically pure.