Quotes About Politics

In the minds of many Americans, if you are a radical Democrat or a Socialist, you are automatically a Communist. And if you are a Communist, then therefore you are an anti-American person and a person who is not a patriot. But nothing is further from the truth.

Most liberals I know do not consider themselves to even be liberals. They just think of you and me as conservatives, and that means, therefore, we're odd and we're kooks and maybe extreme and maybe mean.

I usually agree with Rush Limbaugh; therefore I usually don't listen to him.

Conservatives really don't believe in politics as the primary instrument of getting along in life and therefore don't tend to put their energy into it a way people left of center do.

There definitely comes a time where a fresh pair of eyes and fresh leadership would be good, and the Conservative Party has got some great people coming up - the Theresa Mays, and the George Osbornes, and the Boris Johnsons.

You know, Theresa May, she's doing the best she can with not a great hand, a little bit like Chase Carey really.

I think that the European Union negotiators have gotten a shock. They were shocked when they realised the Brexit trade negotiations were not just going to be a continuation of those that happened under Theresa May.

Like Theresa May, I regularly find myself infuriated by the rantings of Anjem Choudary and other hate preachers.

My pitch is very simple. My name is Theresa May, and I think I'm the best person to be Prime Minister of this country.

Although I never wanted Theresa May to be our Prime Minister, I had been prepared to give her the benefit of the doubt.

Theresa May... is ideally placed to implement Brexit on the best possible terms for the British people, and she has promised she will do so.

I believe that Theresa May is going to end up with a botched Brexit that will satisfy no one and make sure that calls for a people's vote on the final Brexit deal will only get louder.

The Conservatives have been unusually badly led by David Cameron and Theresa May.

Theresa May has much to answer for, but it is not her fault that she couldn't square the circle of the Brexiteers' lies: nobody could.

The central thesis of the American failure in Afghanistan - the one you'll hear from politicians and pundits and even scholars - was succinctly propounded by Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage: 'The war in Iraq drained resources from Afghanistan before things were under control'.

My thesis is that government is not, in fact, broken. It's just listening to the wrong people, and it's listening to all of this quiet influence. So it's a very robust operation that operates kind of under the surface.

A lot of our so-called Latino leaders are gutless. I talk to these cry-baby Latino leaders, and they say they can't win elections until Latinos are a majority.

CNN is pretty consistently on the left, if you look at their choice of stories, what they play up. It's not what they say. It's what they highlight.

I hate politics. What they say and what they do is completely different.

You have plausible deniability, as they say in politics, as an author with movies. Because if the movie is terrible, you simply say they failed to catch the genius of the book.

They say politics is a contact sport, and I have to agree with that.

What free-market economists are not telling us is that the politics they want to get rid of are none other than those of democracy itself. When they say we need to insulate economic policies from politics, they are in effect advocating the castration of democracy.

It's not just a matter of whether you support Obama or Romney. It's who they have coming with them. I always keep my powder dry, as they say in the military.

I know some very political people who rap, and they say very political things and they'll never get a deal.