Quotes About Politics

I wonder how many times you have to be hit on the head before you find out who's hitting you? It's about time that the people of America realized what the Republicans have been doing to them.

Well, I say it's time to take Stephen Harper to the woodshed!

It's time to get real, folks. Hope and change ain't working. Hope and change is not a solution. Hope and change is not a job.

The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of celery.

While GOP elites say they're shocked, shocked, by [Donald] Trump's religious bigotry, this is far from the first time Islamophobia has bubbled up in their party.

I've thought Cheney was scary for a long time. Now I know I was right to be nervous.

The best time to listen to a politician is when he's on a stump on a street corner in the rain late at night when he's exhausted. Then he doesn't lie.

A political ideology is a very handy thing to have. It's a real time-saver, because it tells you what you think about things you know nothing about.

The poor are not property owners, so the democrats ignored them. The nationalists did not. Not

VLADIMIR BYKOVSKY, Chuvashia: "Do you allow yourself emotions?" PUTIN: "Unfortunately, I do." DOBROSLAVA

Shortly after the elections, Putin went so far as to inform us that Parliament was a place not for debate, but for legislative tidying up. He was pleased that the new Duma would not be given to debating.

PUTIN: "No civilized state can live without a legislative institution. A great deal depends on the Duma. We expect efficient, systematic work." ALEXANDER

Most meetings of democrats end with the incantation, 'Let's complain to Europe.' Europe, unfortunately, is tired of hearing how wicked Putin is. It would prefer to be fooled and to hear how good he is.

Although the definition of an 'enemy of the state' changed over time, the mechanisms to deal with these enemies were put in place right at the very beginning.

There can be no neutrality in a polarized world because there can be no nonpartisan or apolitical institutions.

I don't believe the war is simply the work of politicians and capitalists. Oh no, the common man is every bit as guilty; otherwise, people and nations would have rebelled long ago!

The warehouse cat was always the aggressor, while the attic cat was ultimately the victor, just as in politics.

Things are going well on the political front. Italy has banned the Fascist Party. The people are fighting the Fascists in many places—even the army has joined the fight. How can a country like that continue to wage war against England?

Believing in George Bush was so ludicrous that believing in God almost seems rational.

Jesus was soft on crime. He'd never have been elected anything.

Then I thought: Wait—George Bush? And relief washed over me like gentle surf, because believing in George Bush was so ludicrous that believing in God seems almost rational.

It's wonderful to travel again when the rest of the world does not feel that war criminals are in charge of your country.

I became a socialist for five weeks, then the bus ride to my socialist meetings wore me out.

The two groupings soon acquired names, originally intended as insults. Those hostile to the Duke of York were known as "Whigs," short for "Whiggamore," a term formerly applied to extremist Presbyterian rebels in Scotland. Their more traditionalist opponents were dubbed "Tories," after the lawless Catholic bandits who rampaged in Ireland.