Quotes About Politics

You know, a left-winger, the barrier to success if you're on the left in commercial radio is a mile and a half higher than it is if you're on the right.

Politics aside, it will be hard for any new liberal radio network to outdo the professionalism of NPR.

'Vanity Fair' is a left-wing rag.

Don't get me wrong: politicians have been lying for a long time, long before Donald Trump was born, but the degree of just nonstop rage, grievance, prevarication, I haven't seen, probably because we haven't had a direct line from a politician's id to the public before.

The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we had no government, we'd have no problems. I can tell you, that contradicts evidence, history, and common sense.

Trump channeled ethno-populist rage as naturally and charismatically as George Wallace had during the 1960s, while seating a billionaire cabinet.

With Thobbing Gristle, that era from '75 to '81 was a period when the politics of the time demanded anger and rage.

The IIP had to be folded up by the Harper Conservatives after it became clear - and as it took the 'South China Morning Post's Ian Young to reveal - that Canada's ragged refugee-class immigrants had contributed more to Revenue Canada than the IIP's big-spender immigrant investors did over the life of the program.

Paul Ryan's love of Rage Against the Machine is amusing, because he is the embodiment of the machine that our music has been raging against for two decades.

Every day I wake up and think: 'Am I part of the problem? Am I helping further entrench the political divide? All the raging mouthpieces of the right that I'm furious with - am I just the same but on the left?' I have no easy answers to that.

There is no such thing as a Democratic or Republican road, bridge, port, airfield or rail system.

Ed Miliband rails against energy companies and says the market isn't working. But wasn't he Britain's first secretary of state for energy and climate change in 2008?

No matter the evidence or the experience, the Conservative party has been allergic to direct state involvement in running our railways.

I hate to rain on anyone's parade or burst the enthusiasm bubble, but talk is especially cheap during an election season.

I'm the only one in America who belongs to the 'Cure Cancer' party, so if you give money to cancer, like Harry Reid and Max Baucus, some of these guys really helped us raise big money for cancer, I give them big money for their reelections.

I'm not going to raise the debt ceiling.

If there was one fact that sent me hurtling off to write 'Politics Lost,' it was when I learned that John Kerry had focus-grouped Abu Ghraib. We knew about the Justice Department memo in June of 2004, and Kerry didn't raise that in any one of his three debates with George Bush.

It will be almost impossible for any other candidate to raise the money that the Clintons can raise.

I was raised a Democrat, and now I'm an Independent.

It's nice to say let's be bipartisan. But we're a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation.

I come from a part of the world - raised in a part of the world where you're born a Democrat, baptized a Democrat.

When a member of the House moves over to the Senate, he raises the IQ of both bodies.

A lot of people in the media say that Donald Trump goes golfing too much, which raises a very important question: Why do you care? Do you want to know what he's not doing when he's golfing? Being president. Let the man putt-putt!

Article 50 is very poorly written and raises more questions more answers.