Quotes About Politics

I thought I'd left politics when Labour lost the 2010 election and I went off and ran a thinktank for two years and founded the National Infrastructure Commission. It was only because of Brexit that I came back. And I had to learn rapidly how to do politics in the 2010s and it soon became clear to me that you had to be ever-present on social media.

I don't like political rappers.

Rappers are definitely role models and definitely should get involved. They're involved in politics whether they like it or not.

If I wasn't rapping about politics, then I might have been just another person trying to sell albums, and I might have sounded like everyone else out there.

Be honest. Be honest with yourself, be honest with, you know, your fellow politicians. This is a rare quality of politicians.

Political prodigies are rare in a nation that grooms top leaders through decades of Communist Party road-testing and pageantry. And because Chairman Mao's cult of personality led the country into extremism, the Party spent the next three decades engineering its politicians to be as indistinguishable as possible.

Rare is the election campaign that truly hinges on a single issue.

British politics, as the world knows, is a joke. Yet it's rarely funny.

I've rarely kept my distance from kind of - I don't know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic engagement and that kind of thing, except I tended to think, 'Well, do it yourself before you start telling other people what they should be doing.'

I remember fancying myself a junior 'McCainiac' in 2000, though politics were rarely discussed in our household.

Those who abhors democracy would rarely immigrate to an authoritarian state if they have to.

Presidents often disappoint, but first ladies rarely do.

I'm a politician, and as you know, politicians are rarely very funny.

Politicos talk a big game about bringing jobs to devastated cities like Detroit, but rarely succeed.

Candidates, of course, often claim that they want to run 'a purely positive campaign,' but this rarely materializes.

During the early 1990s, Mexico's domestic political sensitivities meant that it rarely extradited people who had committed crimes in the U.S. After NAFTA, extradition numbers began to increase until they surpassed 100 a year in the late 2000s.

It isn't that I was born thinking I had to be president. I'm getting a lot of encouragement to run from people across the country. I don't believe this is a rash decision.

I'm getting nervous to be called a centrist. Breaking out in a rash.

As a woman leader, I thought I brought a different kind of leadership. I was interested in women's issues, in bringing down the population growth rate... as a woman, I entered politics with an additional dimension - that of a mother.

It is not a coincidence that we have managed to send rockets into space, but our literacy rate continues to be below the world average. It is because governments don't want an educated electorate. Because if we get educated, we will start asking the right questions. And they don't want the right questions being asked.

Presidential money is almost like the housing bubble. It's growing at such an astronomical rate, you think it can't get any bigger.

When I first came into parliament, there was, on average, a by-election every three months - due not to MPs bailing out, but because of the death rate.

One of the things I wanted to do in 'The Death of Truth' was explore some of the larger social and political dynamics that fueled the rise of Trump and brought America to the point where a third of the country will casually shrug off hard facts about everything from the size of inaugural crowds to the crime rate among immigrants.

Politicians attend dinners at hotels with contractors. Bankers discuss interest rates at lunch.