Quotes About Politics

We know the legislation that passed the House. It was the worst piece of legislation frankly against working class people that I can remember in my political life in the Congress.

[Voters] are trying to make up their mind on who has a better plan for the economy, whose presidency would more positively impact my life?

I'd like to think that in a generation or two we'll have politicians whose life experience reflects that of the people who are voting for them.

The 1860 election became a referendum on the southern way of life.

Well, I've been a Republican for all of my voting life.

We didn't disqualify Hillary Clinton to be President of the United States the facts of her life and career disqualify her.

It's a fact of life that positive reasons don't always get people to vote. You need some negative reasons.

Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.

That Germany was so immensely strong and Austria so dependent upon German strength that the word and will of Germany would at the critical moment be decisive with Austria.

We did politics awfully well. The problem with that is there may have been something to the fact that people would rather watch space monsters, enigmas, and anomalies than politics.

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Washington clearly enjoyed himself in Annapolis. He danced every dance at the governor's ball, accommodating all the ladies who lined up for the privilege of getting a touch of him. After the thirteen formal toasts at Congress's banquet, he added a concluding one of his own: "Competent Powers to Congress for general purposes."59 It had become his mantra. As much as he wished to get home to Virginia, he was also at home here in the swirl of continental politics.

Their decision to keep above the fray made sense. Franklin and Washington were thin-skinned and recoiled from ad hominem attacks. Neither was particularly adept at defending a proposal in a contentious up-or-down vote, especially a proposition they helped to craft. Franklin might begin fiddling with the text and Washington might lose his temper.

BY ALL ACCOUNTS, HOWEVER, Washington did not want the presidency.

He described the statesman—a role he boasted of avoiding—as someone "whose watchful days & sleepless Nights are spent in devising schemes to promote the welfare of his own—perhaps the ruin of other countries, as if the Globe was insufficient for us all.

Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is.

There was no imminent threat. This was made up in Texas, announced in January to the Republican leadership that war was going to take place and was going to be good politically. This whole thing was a fraud.

In the case of many Kennedys," Neubauer continued, "their drive for power is often supported by good deeds, by a desire to help the poor and disenfranchised, by humanitarian goals. They describe what they do not merely as 'politics' but as the much more lofty-sounding 'public service.' All this reduces the need for them to feel guilty about their single-minded pursuit of power.

on. "No matter how obstructive the Republicans may be, Obama has the responsibility of leadership. I'm worried that he's overplaying his hand in saying that it's all the Republicans' fault.

Jarrett favored "the Chicago Way." Let Obama pat Clinton on the back so he would know later where to stick the knife.

on the Obama White House. CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE THE CLINTONS TRIUMPHANT Shortly before his State of the Union speech in late January 2014, Barack Obama phoned Hillary Clinton to lodge a complaint.

What is morally wrong can never be politically right.—ABRAHAM LINCOLN

If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the Governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me, 90 cents.

There's a nastiness out there that wants to harm me with words. These are my enemies - the ideologues, the populists, the columnists who don't like the fact that I take them on toe-to-toe. What I try to do is tell the truth. It's not the coin of the realm in politics.