Quotes About Politics

There was this mischaracterization that I ran for leadership to be the guy to get conservatives to vote for leadership. I said I would be a conservative voice at the leadership table.

I ran for Congress in 1992, but I lost the election, and I really dropped the idea of ever serving in Congress. Eventually, I went home and became the mayor of my city, West Palm Beach. I was mayor for eight years.

You had eight years before President Trump, a situation where the opposition party basically ran in opposition to the president on a platform of thinly based racism. That doesn't mean that the politicians themselves were outright racist, but when charges of birtherism came up, no one repudiated it.

My vehemence was against the federal courts. I never said a word against black people in my heart since I ran for governor.

From day one, I've always tried to be an honest man. I ran for Congress to make a difference and not to just be another politician.

I really do feel like I'm doing what the people that elected me in the first place wanted me to do. I'm not doing it in the same fashion they thought, or that I thought, when I ran for office in 2010. But I will be doing what they wanted me to do, and that is to try to fix Washington.

I was 19 when my mom ran for Senate, and it was a pretty tough race. And you walk awa,y and you think, 'I don't know if I want to be part of that world'.

When I got involved in politics and started running, there were questions about whether a woman could take care of her kids and serve in office. And that was never an issue when I ran.

I served on a lot of the local boards in my local community, and then I ran for the state legislature in '98 and ran for the U.S. Senate in 2006. I mean, it was just kind of one thing after another. A series of really bad decisions.

I only became involved in politics when democracy returned to Bolivia. Then, unluckily in democracy, we ran into the inheritance of 20 years of military government, a great deal of debt, and a great deal of expense.

Nobody was going to beat Barack Obama in 2008. That's a fact. It was his moment. It wasn't that John McCain ran a bad campaign, or picked the wrong VP. It was just that it didn't matter, it was over when it started.

I ran for Congress as a first-time candidate to fight to protect everyone with a pre-existing condition, to bring down the skyrocketing costs of healthcare and prescription drugs, to fight for clean drinking water, and to help restore civility and decency to our politics.

When I first ran for office in 1980, there weren't that many women running for office.

President Trump was elected because he offered a new approach in Washington, and I paid close attention as I ran my business back in Indiana.

I ran for Congress to give Kansans a real voice in Washington, D.C. - not to let our priorities be drowned out by special interests.

When I was in the military, my dad ran in the Mike Harris 1995 Common Sense Revolution election, and that's where I really made the decision that one day I would love to run for office.

I ran for Governor to change the priorities in Raleigh because middle class shouldn't mean second-class.

Just pick a political story at random and read the comments. There is no logic or reason on either side - only hypocrisy and hate.

You have to separate what needs to be done to avoid the fiscal cliff and what needs to be done longer range. It's a mistake to essentially collapse those two - they're not the same. I don't think you can achieve everything at once.

I have been really furious about the constant charges being lobbed against me about identity politics that, by the way, are only lobbed against women and candidates of color.

We see ourselves in the House as sort of the engine room of the ship of the Republican Party. We're down in the bottom... in the bowels shoveling coal into the furnace. And, by the way, there's nothing wrong with coal.

You don't get further outside than I do going into Washington, D.C.

We have to end Citizens United, and we have to do it united as a people. If we don't do it, our system is going to be further corrupted.

People care about their financial futures, and politics is very much a part of that.