Quotes About Politics

The corruption doesn't cease, the crime rates don't come down, no matter which party comes to power.

I would rather be politically dead than hypocritically immortalized.

Rather than politics of 'love jihad,' why shouldn't the concept of Love Jihad be applicable in politics?

We've got a dictatorial president and a Justice Department that does not want Congress involved. Your guy's acting like he's king. His dad was at a 90 percent approval rating and he lost! And the same thing can happen to him!

When I ran the first time in 2001, they called me 'The Latino Mayor.' By the time I left in 2013, with a 58 percent approval rating, half the people liked me, half the people didn't. I was everybody's mayor. There was never any criticism that I was just for one group.

Truman has become the patron saint of failed presidents because he left office with a 27 percent approval rating, and people were saying, 'To err is Truman,' yet look at what he did: the Marshall Plan, the creation of NATO, the Truman Doctrine.

I mean, you make a movie with Sarah Palin in it, you get great ratings. That's easy. I know how to get ratings: get Sarah Palin.

She's leaving when the president has one of the highest approval ratings on record. From here, it can only go down. And when it does, you know who they're going to blame. They're gonna blame Andy Card!

I don't spend a lot of time thinking about the ratings of Congress. I really don't.

Aside from Donald Trump, the Clintons are the best for ratings and click-throughs.

I hired Sarah Palin because she was hot and got ratings.

Freedom rests on a rational distrust of government; government will always use its power to benefit the incumbent administration.

I'm excited to bring a dose of moderate, rational conservatism to 'The Cycle.'

Kim Jong-un is not a rational person.

I think the Democratic Party has picked a lot of the wrong candidates, the kind that Middle America, or people who are more down the middle and more rational, can't side with. I think that's been the problem.

George Bush and John Ashcroft were religious in a scary way, but the rational among us could always take heart that, deep down, the Bush administration was more cynical than messianic.

You won't get a rational assessment of a political party from a member, and you won't get a reasoned account of the joys of being 'linked' from somebody who's already 'in.'

We would like the rest of the world to look up to American democracy. So when there is this kind of folly taking place, it makes it difficult for other rational nations to look up to American democracy.

I am very emotional about politics in a way that makes it hard for me to articulate things in a rational fashion.

At a certain moment, Yugoslavia stopped being rational, and then you end up going to war.

Of course I am partisan in my politics, but my partisanship is rational - which, in my book, is not necessarily oxymoronic.

I think political parties can be funded in a perfectly rational way without being corrupt.

It is rational Republicans who want to pull the plug on the Trump presidency.

I've learned over the years that 'rational discussion' accomplishes almost nothing in politics, particularly with people better educated than average.