Quotes About Politics

The overwhelming majority of Coloradans don't want Guantanamo Bay detainees in the United States or Colorado.

My experience of American politics is that people raise issues, and they get addressed in an effective but imperfect way. But that's sort of the American system: Mind the problem and worry it, and then we attack it with overwhelming power and put it away - and that's the end of that problem.

Corruption in government is an overwhelming problem.

My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness.

Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

At one time in Montana, our elected officials were literally bought and owned by companies.

For too long, Missouri has been run by career politicians, owned by corrupt consultants, high-paid lobbyists and special interests.

In 2009, my father wanted me to join politics. I told him, 'Why should I jump into the dirt and grime of politics when I can have politicians come to me as owner of a media group?' Then my father gave me an ultimatum.

My life is all about owning the libs now.

I called my party the Green Oxygen party because Colombians were choking.

Bill Clinton, who packs his own star power, has been a big draw as well as a big drag on his wife's campaign.

I mean, the conservative movement in this country has been selling a pack of lies for a long time.

When Obama gutted Medicare by taking $717 billion out of it, the Romney plan does not do that. The Ryan plan mimicked part of the Obama package there, the Romney plan does not. That's a big difference.

No one is asking for an Oprah in Chief. Anyhow, Obama is too chilly by nature ever to be convincing as a human care package.

When you're young, with less on the line, it's easier to be audacious, to experiment. So I introduced the concerns of my generation - politics, sex, drugs, rock-and-roll, etc. - to the comics page, which for many years caused a rolling furor.

I've spent more time on Hillary Clinton's Flickr page than any other human being on the planet.

The Cold War in Africa is one of the darkest, most disgraceful pages in contemporary history, and everybody ought to be ashamed.

Political biography is in the doldrums. No one wants to read 800 pages or so of cradle-to-grave dead politics, especially if it's familiar stuff and has all been written about before.

Censorship is advertising paid by the government.

Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin.

There's always somebody who is paid too much, and taxed too little - and it's always somebody else.

Obama/Romney, Romney/Obama - the most important election of our lifetime? Fact is they're all the same - bought and paid for with the same money. Ours is a country of the SuperPAC, by the SuperPAC, and for the SuperPAC.

I never ever paid attention to any election.

Netflix is a pro-SJW business, so it pains me to give them $8 a month.