Quotes About Politics

Despite its flaws, Marxism still seems to explain the material world better than anything else.

I would say I was still a Marxist - which is not to be confused with being a Communist. Despite its flaws, Marxism still seems to explain the material world better than anything else.

You can be a great president and be ridden with flaws. Of course we know that.

Donald Trump really understood how to float a story, how to float a rumor, how to manipulate the truth.

I enjoyed debate on the floor but it's not really debate in the same way.

There are conspiracies all over the Senate floor on any day!

Ayanna Pressley and I would probably vote the exact same way on pretty much every vote we'd have on the floor of the House.

All too often in tough economic times, it is the environment that gets left on the cutting room floors of Congress as everyone scraps for limited federal dollars.

When I get to Washington, the people of Florida are going to know I'm not going to spend my first year having fundraisers to pay off a campaign debt.

There are so many colorful characters in Florida. There's a lot of money, development - not all of it good - and corruption.

I would rather not to have to fly across the country at all, but obviously, as a federal party leader, I do.

My focus is just to defeat the Congress-NCP combine, nothing else. We will do everything to keep them out of power.

The worse things are on the world stage, the more fodder there will always be for comedians. But at the end of the day, I trust in my abilities to make comedy and create art, with or without Donald Trump.

The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.

If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American politics as politics itself.

If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American politics as politics itself. It's easy to point at me. I'm convenient.

If it hadn't been for Senator Sanders, I don't know if I would've been brought back into the fold of politics.

I tried to distinguish myself from the Rush Limbaughs of the world, but I also understood that there were folks on the Left who did not want to make that distinction: who thought that we all sounded alike, and we all were in lockstep.

If you're going to talk about politics, then there are going to be folks who are with you and folks that are against you.

We say there are people who have worked in campaigns who say that they have lost some - and we call those folks operatives, managers, strategists, consultants; and then there are people who work in campaigns and say that they have never lost, and we call them liars.

I think, generally, the folks from mainland China have more positive feelings about the government here in many cases than the average Americans feel about their government.

There are a lot of folks who endorsed me that I would not want to see as president.

A lot of folks look at the political calculation and then determine the policy. I think that's backward.

Contrary to what some folks might say, I do not want to raise taxes.