Quotes About Politics

When you bring God into politics, very strange things happen.

A lot of bad things happen in lame duck sessions.

Things happen in American politics in the political center. If the President will meet us in the center, there are things we can accomplish.

I keep telling these millennials it's all about them to get into politics and start making things happen. They don't care about whether or not someone is gay. They don't care to see contraception taken away or want to even discuss it. They're going forward, not backward.

Are my politics Democrat or Republican? I think both are horrific. And it doesn't matter anyway. Money runs America; money runs everywhere.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.

Part of the core information that I've been purveying is that identity politics is a sick game. You don't play racial, ethnic, and gender identity games. The Left plays them on behalf of the oppressed, let's say, and the Right tends to play them on behalf of nationalism and ethnic pride. I think they're equally dangerous.

I think the American people, with some justification, think that most politicians live in la-la land.

I can't think of a president who has been overburdened by a knowledge of economics.

I'm an independent thinker. I am a woman. I am a Republican. And I think for myself, and I decide where I vote and how I vote.

I'm not a great deep political thinker.

It always is a battle for a Republican in Connecticut, even one who's a moderate like I am, and one who's an independent thinker.

Politics is not a game for naive thinkers. You may go in as an idealist, but you certainly won't come out as one.

You have two choices with Obama. You either believe that he is a man of Christ... or you think he's a liar. And I'm surprised by the number of atheist free thinkers that support Obama, and their argument is essentially, 'He's lying about being religious 'cause you have to do that to get elected.' It's a horrible reason to like somebody.

We're movers, forward thinkers, people who get things done. But the Tea Party and Republicans like Bob Dold are holding us back.

Short-term thinking is the greatest enemy of good government.

Those indoctrinated by leftist thinking become largely incapable of making accurate moral judgments.

I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking.

Politics is pop. Our job as comedians - especially me, as a late-night talk show, which is a broader audience - is to amplify what we think America is thinking.

I think experience is a terribly overrated idea when it comes to thinking about who should become president.

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

Beyonce may be a gifted entertainer, but no one should really care what she thinks about any serious issue confronting our nation.