Quotes About Politics

No one likes the Electoral College, expect perhaps those who were elected because of it. No one likes gerrymandering, except those doing the gerrymandering. No one likes the filibuster, except those doing the filibustering.

I wanted to be mayor, but my party didn't want me. I was perhaps too liberal.

I think that Obama's failure to reestablish the rule of law in money matters is the most damaging thing that he's done - and perhaps the most damaging thing that has happened in American politics in my lifetime. Because once the rule of law is absent in money matters, then anything really goes in politics.

In justice to human society it may perhaps be said of almost all the polities and civil institutions in the world, however imperfect, that they have been founded in and carried on with very considerable wisdom.

Obamacare. Get rid of it. Period.

We had a military and political leadership at that period which was genuinely deluded.

We will remember UPA 2, if at all, it seems, as that period when things went mysteriously wrong - for the bribe-taking, buck-passing, foot-dragging, and general sense of paralysis.

I think things changed as a result of a certain perception of our politics. When we went through our zealous, self-righteous period it didn't exactly win us any friends.

Political assumptions can remain constant for long periods and then change very quickly.

I have withdrawn from partisan politics. I am a constitutionalist who believes that the Constitution and the Bill of Rights must be central and the parties must be peripheral.

I'm of the opinion that one of the perks of being in Parliament is not having to do the school run.

I'm a bit of a shill for the Clinton Administration, which has its perks. I'm invited to all the inaugural balls.

I don't mind being a permanent nightmare for the United States.

If I were a Democrat, I'd centralize power in Washington by nationalizing our elections. It wouldn't be enough to hold all three branches temporarily. I'd need to make it permanent.

The permanent power brokers of this city are the columnists.

The permanent campaign is inherently deceptive.

I never believed that my service in the U.S. Congress should become a permanent career.

Today, campaigning isn't an 'interruption' but a permanent condition. Indeed, if you are a successful campaigner, it's expected you'll be a successful president.

Frankly, I want to be in government with Caroline Lucas, not against her - and certainly not in permanent opposition.

In politics, there are no permanent enemies or friends.

It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.

In medicine as well as politics, one cannot permit the cure to be worse than the disease.

Something to keep in mind, whether you adore Obama or Trump: Drooling toadyism is not a good look on either side, and it paves the way for evil. Because while hate can drive people to do many things, love permits leaders to do all things - none of them good.

Saudi Arabia inflames the Sunni-Shiite divide and sets a pernicious example of intolerance by banning churches.