Quotes About Politics

I have not ever met Donald Trump, and I plan to go my entire life without ever actually having to breathe the same air that he breathes.

If saying that religion should be a private matter and should not have special influence in public life is illiberal, then 74% of U.K. Christians are illiberal, too.

I know for a fact that Ted Cruz every day uses two checklists - to guide him through his personal and professional life - and that is the Bible and the U.S. Constitution.

Political elections are not life and death.

The day that I was elected to the United States Senate remains among the most cherished of my life.

If you have a full understanding of what we're up against and the leadership of your country doesn't, well, hello. That's life in America today.

Is there anybody out there that will point to Hillary Clinton and say, "Gosh, my life is so much better because of her"? Why aren't they on stage?

What is happening to Donald Trump in terms of the way he's being reported on and cast with the media is the way every Republican presidential candidate has been treated in my life.

The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.

Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.

What is the point in calling anything God if it does not also hold sway in every part of one's life--especially one's politics?

People getting their fundamental interests wrong is what American political life is all about.

In the progress of politics, as in the common occurrences of life, we are not only apt to forget the ground we have travelled over, but frequently neglect to gather up experiences as we go.

I'm very wary of doing political stuff for a lot of reasons. One of the big ones is that the shelf-life for them is not very long, and the joke becomes old news very quickly.

I'm not a political guy. I've been a Democrat my whole life, but that didn't mean I went in and just pulled the Democratic ticket.

I've always found that avoiding insanity is useful in life - which in American politics sometimes puts one in the minority.

Apparently, the line you take on Israel trumps everything else in life.

Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors.

The big hang-up was George Bush wanted to get life lines, you know, so he could call somebody.

The issue that a political campaign would make a human life into - you know - a political football, is unsettling.

Attending a Sarah Palin rally was simultaneously one of the strangest and most chilling events of my life.

Newt Gingrich never received more than 100,000 votes in his life. He'll never be president.

I'm interested in politics, what's going on in the world, how people behave and how your life is often in the hands of other people.

All working, practical political systems, even those professing to originate in moral grandeur, are based upon and operate by contempt of human life and the individual fate.