Quotes About Politics

A wise nation should cultivate a political spirit that allows opponents to cooperate without fearing an automatic execution from their core supporters. Who knew that the real rogues in American politics would be the ones who dare to get along?

So benevolent, enlightened, wise dictators are the most efficient form of government. The problem is what comes afterwards, right?

Maybe politically it wasn't wise but when people have different view points I think the public has a right to hear it and the public has a right to make decisions based on those view points.

Do I have political heroes? Probably not wise to.

It might not be wise for a sometime political journalist to admit this, but the 2016 campaign doesn't seem like fun to me.

During the 2008 election, I made clear to the Obama campaign that I don't think it's wise for me to force my personal political agenda on anyone.

Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.

Can policy be both wise and aggressively partisan? Ask any Republican worth his salt and the answer will be an unequivocal yes. Ask a Democrat of the respectable Beltway variety and he will twist himself into a pretzel denying it.

I don't think it's wise to shut down the government.

Saying you don't want to enter every potential war in the Middle East doesn't make you an isolationist; it makes you wise.

I'm incredibly uncommitted to party politics. I vote Labour but only because Glenda Jackson was my MP and I loved her on 'Morecambe & Wise.'

Just because you have the numbers in Congress, doesn't mean it's wise to abuse your power.

That was my choice at that time, and I still say Nixon was a great president. A very beautiful and wise man.

When I say 'president,' I still mean Roosevelt - wisely, I think.

All sensible politicians favor growth, just as we all favor sound public finances. Both can be achieved if we rationalize spending, invest available resources wisely, and clamp down on tax evasion.

Political shenanigans come and go, yet often what feels like a big deal in Westminster fails to get a mention on the news. As a result, the public wisely let most of the hurly-burly of politics wash over their heads.

None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as far as we can perceive, much security for his being wiser than any of his neighbours.

Indian politics has a way of taking a curious turn and surprising the wisest of pundits.

My military service is the thing I'm most proud of, but when I think of everything happening in the Middle East, I can't help but tell myself I wish we would have achieved some sort of lasting victory. No one touched that subject before Trump, especially not in the Republican Party.

Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

I just wish we knew a little less about his urethra and a little more about his arms sales to Iran.

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

To those who wish to shape the nation's political dialogue, social media is dangerous.

I wish politicians would put the environment at the centre of every agenda.