Quotes About Politics

We have a cancer within, close to the Presidency, that is growing.

Our political system is now run by the Big People for their own interests. If they ever deign to notice the Little People, it is with disdain and contempt.

A few decades back one could get a pretty good idea of someone's overall political stance by finding out how much he hates rich people; the equivalent today is finding out how much he hates white people.

As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.

hear you don't believe I know enough to hold office. I wish you to understand that I am thinking about something or other most of the time.

Americans tell pollsters they want bipartisan cooperation. But those who actually vote don't value that as much—or they define "bipartisanship" as acquiescence by the other party to what their party believes.

His rough tongue is a sign of a president who is dismantling the traditional presidency.

This is one of the major problems we have. By the way, it was endorsed by leadership on both sides of the aisle and both ends of the Capitol, by the NRA and also by the gun control groups.

Iran has long sponsored terrorists who carry out homicide bombings in Israeli cities. However, it is a mistake to believe the danger Iran poses is directed at Israel alone.

But he began to lampoon the rise of Hitler, and soon his life was entangled in global politics. He was playing an engagement in Stockholm when the Nazis invaded Denmark in April 1940, and, believing himself to be on Hitler's "extermination list," he escaped to New York with his wife. He arrived in the United States with no personal belongings and ignorant of American customs and speech.

Hillary Clinton is driving across Iowa in a van. It's to get to know the people she'll never, ever see again in her life.

Our youth [with their overwhelming support of Obama] are voting for a permanent tax on their life

I think the platform ought to be pro-life. It is the basis of the Republican Party. People have got to understand that abortion is not a contraceptive.

Hillary Clinton's life has been filled with corruption but nobody cares.

For those of us who consider ourselves political moderates, life is a dispiriting slog, a sorry mix of rectitude and ineptitude.

I could not be leading a religious life unless I identified myself with the whole of mankind, and that I could not do unless I took part in politics.

If Bush wins, I'm going to leave the country and spend the rest of my life in France.

If you're black and you oppose a progressive agenda, and you're pro life, and you're pro family, then they do not even know what to call you. You end up on some watch list for extremists.

No politician is perfect. But in every election in your life, there will be one choice that is better than the others. Go out and vote for that one.

I want to be president mainly for what I don't want to do: I don't want to run your life, I don't want to run the economy, and I don't want to police the world.

Most of the really good literature I've read in my life was political, meaning it was important - about something going on in the history of the world - or contemporary.

I can survive setbacks, I've survived a lot of setbacks in my life. I don't see them as anything other than the natural ebb and flow of life and politics.

In another life, before taking the veil of journalistic purity, I practiced the black arts of a political operative, including 'debate prep.

Americans have not only a right but a responsibility to consider the values of those who seek to lead them - whether they arise from life experience, political ideology or religious belief.