Quotes About Politics

I realise that, strutting around in power corridors for political coverage, a journalist becomes half a politician.

The Conservatives must realise that being sceptical is different from being phobic in what is an interdependent world.

I never realised 'The Return' would take so long to make - it was a very tough 'political experience,' and the post production in L.A. seemed to go on forever.

I soon realised the state rulers were being protected by the federal government who relied on these rotten boroughs to deliver their vote.

I think Bernie Sanders is a realist.

I wouldn't have run for office if I wasn't an optimistic person. I'm a realistic optimistic person, though.

It's a good line to say we're going to get money out of politics. I don't know how realistic it is.

In a system created by Putin, it is only possible for Putin to win. I am realistic about who will become the president.

A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice.

I was very much inspired by the things that I'd seen and done in politics, but I was also desperate for a complete departure from the reality of my political experience. 'It's Classified' and my previous book 'Eighteen Acres' are both works of fiction, but if they do seem realistic, it's by design.

One of the things that's unique about Louisiana politics is that people here have a much more realistic attitude about who their politicians are. They know they are human and not saints or Mormons or Eagle Scouts.

People have been saying that Amar Singh is more of an intellectual than a grassroot politician but we will prove them wrong. We will pick up problems, explore them in a realistic way and present them in parliament.

After I finished my first draft of 'Salvage the Bones,' I felt that I wasn't political enough. I had to be more honest about the realities of the community I was writing about.

The element which is conveniently missing from today's Republican Party is the human one. People's hopes and realities become numbers and words, devoid of personality and easy to erase.

At the end of the day, we have obviously our own political realities that will not allow us to approve something that is not in the benefit of everybody.

Reality has a well-known liberal bias.

Google has long been a leftist company.

Obama's claim is that he wants to give. The GOP is saying it wants to take.

I don't think the GOP is going to die; I think Trump is going to revive it.

When I think about Trump and the GOP, the blood really is on their hands.

It is not true that Trump is nobody's fool. He is the GOP's.

Some want to rebrand the GOP, but they will never rebrand conservatives.

I can assure you that women all over the country are paying close attention to the GOP 'War on Women.'

Going into the 2012 election, I worried that without effectively connecting with the youth vote, the GOP risked losing the millennial generation for the rest of their lives.