Quotes About Politics

Is it a coincidence that in 1998, Barack Obama talks about a majority coalition of welfare recipients and in 2012 we got a record number of Americans on food stamps while he's president? I don't think it's a coincidence.

There's a void of leadership in a lot of Washington. I think one of the reasons why there's so much angst across the country.

It is Barack Obama who is at war with this country. Recent events prove it. This is not a cliche. It's not a figure of speech. Obama is at war with the U.S. economy.

You know how old I am? I'm so old, I remember when Letterman used to be funny and it was presidents who were serious. That's how old I am.

For the last five years, we have been presented with the idea that Barack Obama is superhuman. Barack Obama is unlike any of us or anyone else. And he isn't. In fact, he's much less achieved and much less accomplished than most who have gotten half as far as he has, and I think maybe what we saw was the best.

Liberals measure compassion by how many people are given welfare. Conservatives measure compassion by how many people no longer need it.

The way liberals are interpreting the First Amendment today is that it prevents anyone who is religious from being in government.

None of what Barack Obama is doing or wants to do to this country is anything the rest of the world hasn't seen before and already failed at.

Ronald Reagan was the greatest president of the twentieth century.

Conservatism solves problems libralism blows em up.

Why didn't Obama make Hillary Clinton his vice president? (Answer: Because then he'd have to have someone taste his food for him, and start his car for him … )

Cam's Presidential Team.

As in other social matters, members of the Coors family amplify their views with money and organizational involvement.

Money in politics is a huge issue.

All politicians are humble, and seldom let you forget it. They go around the country boasting about their humility. They are proud of their humility. Many are downright arrogant about their humility and insist that it qualifies them to be President.

A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday.

There is no business like show business, Irving Berlin once proclaimed, and thirty years ago he may have been right, but not anymore. Nowadays almost every business is like show business, including politics, which has become more like show business than show business is.

Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism.

Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-six years later, he was succeeding a failed Republican president, and Americans had voted for change. What that change might be Roosevelt never clearly said, probably because he himself didn't know.

In the US case, the best constitution was one that left the Jeffersonian and Hamiltonian visions to be fought out in the economy rather than in the polity

The tension between enabling and constraining democracy is therefore the heart of democratic constitutionalism.

In politics we do well to abide by precedent and precept and even prejudice, for the great mysterious incorporation of the human race has acquired a prescriptive wisdom far greater than any man's petty private rationality.

Politics is the preoccupation of the quarter-educated," George Gissing wrote near the end of the nineteenth century. To that aphorism we may add, near the end of the twentieth century, "Democracy is the preoccupation of the half-aware." What our age desperately requires is not more mediocrity, but more elevation of spirit, awareness of the eternal source of truth. That failing, order and freedom and justice fall into ruin.

Tax reform means, 'Don't tax you, don't tax me. Tax that fellow behind the tree.'