Quotes About Politics

President Obama certainly has an impressive gift for eloquence, and he has a global vision, as did my father. He doesn't rattle easy, and he doesn't harbor animosity, which were also characteristics my father had. But my father's arena was far broader than politics.

I think that most people believe that Russia, because of its - it has regained some of its military strength. And they do rattle the saber a bit. It wants to be a player.

In a raw political sense, I want to win farm country for Bill Clinton.

I think politics is a reason why a lot of stuff doesn't get done. There's a lot of favors, and a lot of people are held back by their intentions of being re-elected or the things that they owe their party or constituents.

I'm not part of the friends-and-family club; I'm not part of the pay-to-play club; I'm not looking to get re-elected. I'm not looking to go to another office and fill my campaign coffers. I don't need any friends in Albany except the people of the state.

I don't care about getting re-elected; I care about saving the country.

Legislators are interested in their pet projects, getting re-elected, and popularity contests.

In order to get re-elected, Obama told us Al Qaeda was on the run and all but defeated.

I don't like the establishment. I like the diversity of knowledge, and I'm going to use all that I can to help get President Trump re-elected again in 2020.

Any politician who's ever been re-elected knows that friends come and go; enemies accumulate.

I think I was identified as a failed president because I wasn't re-elected.

Bill and Hillary Clinton have one central idea in their uncluttered, ambitious minds: Hillary in 2008. Let Bush get re-elected, use the '04 primaries and general election to clean out the underbrush of competing Democratic candidates, and proceed unimpeded to the '08 nomination.

My goal was never to get re-elected.

When you first come into Parliament, it's a daunting place because you feel you've so much to learn. Once you've been re-elected, you feel much more confident. It just gives you a bit of a boost.

I don't think Obama will get re-elected.

I'm a can-do conservative, and I just love the job, and I think I'm going to get re-elected.

I think what we can do is make sure as conservatives that we elect good people to both the House, the Senate, and make sure that President Trump gets re-elected.

In my mind, the re-election of Richard Nixon, compared with what was available on the other side, was so much more important that I put it in just that context.

I am running for re-election no matter who runs.

Members of Congress are less beasts of accumulating burden than computational machines designed to win re-election. Their sense of their own political interests is acute.

I'm up for re-election in 2014, and yes I do plan to run for re-election.

I have to earn re-election. That's the way I see it.

After a great deal of thought and discussions with my family, I have decided not to seek re-election in 2014. Politics shouldn't be a career, and I never intended to make it one.

There's a lot of work to be done if you're going to run for president or if you're going to run for re-election in a state as big as Florida.