Quotes About Politics

We are not a country where a bunch of lieutenant colonels can get together and decide what the policy is of the United States.

Trump lays bare a lot of things already wrong with our society. But he also accelerates the process of it becoming worse, when it could be getting better.

Six months after I was born, we moved to Ghana. The first five years of my life were there. In 1982, when there was a coup d'etat, my family left because the government was overthrown, and my dad was involved in politics.

It's okay for the President to start a war in Iraq, but it's not okay for me to talk about what I see around me in the ghetto.

All politicians, no matter how gifted, ultimately depend on circumstances for their success.

I don't give any gifts to the rich.

I think that I have very few personal gifts to bring to real politics.

A good comedian can make serious political points while also having a giggle.

I don't really care how or why Obama got to the right place on gay marriage. I'm just glad he got there.

You're basically like glass: People see the candidates through you.

I was really educating myself on the environment, but I didn't realize it was so connected to politics, connected to globalization.

Liberal democratic states can't remain globally competitive.

My dreams of NHL glory were never fulfilled so I had to settle for politics instead.

All the best reasons for going into politics never really change: the desire for glory and fame and the chance to do something that really matters, that will make life better for a lot of people.

It's political glue inside Europe to keep it together - the euro is the best thing going for it since the creation of the common market.

Festering political problems do not go away simply because they are kept in a dark corner.

There's one thing my dad taught me: don't talk about politics, because you'll never make anyone happy. Don't even go for it.

There are certainly days that we can convince ourselves in Washington that everybody's talking about one thing, and then I'll go home to my district and realize that everybody's actually talking about something different.

And I think that George Bush really is a very godly person.

It is 2017, and we are living in the golden age of lying.

You don't say, like the Bush crowd, 'I got this guy over here and I don't like him and I'm gonna get him, whether you back me or not.'

It's a good feeling to be able to help, when help is needed. That's one reason I also went into politics. But by politics I don't mean the smoke-filled room sense, but simply being active in community affairs.

I have worked closely with my Democratic allies. Elijah Cummings is a good friend.

Chandra Swami is a good friend of mine, and he has devotees and well-wishers in every party, including the JP. That doesn't mean that he, or anyone else, can influence me.