Quotes About Politics

I was shadow health secretary for six years, and the beauty of being in opposition - if there is any beauty - is that you tend to get a pretty unvarnished view because no one bothers to paint the coal white before you turn up.

Trump is an icon. He is a part of American history. He is every bit the icon as anyone I paint.

The mainstream media has chosen their candidates and their issues, and they're not the same as the GOP's. They are going to be painted as the bad guys.

Guys like me are job creators, and we don't like having a bulls-eye painted on our back.

I don't think that the fundamental issue between India and Pakistan is Kashmir, OK.

I am chairman of the Pakistan People's Party.

Sadly, Indians are not very easily accepted in Pakistan, and that has a lot to do with the governments.

Attempts are being made to turn Pakistan into a security state. If they succeed they should better rename it 'ISIstan.'

People of Pakistan don't want a ban on Indian content in their country, but it is their politicians who want it. In our country too, politicians want to ban their art and artists.

Women politicians in Pakistan have to deal with severe sexual harassment within their own parties and from their opponents.

Pakistani politics is complicated, and I think it's not something a foreigner can easily assimilate and understand.

I have no illusions about our elected politicians. Pakistani democracy is anything but perfect.

There is no more Palestine. Finished.

Palestine is not a country, so there should be no embassy here.

Fear is the main factor in Arab politics... There is no Arab who is not harmed by Jews' entry into Palestine.

There are differences of opinion that come up naturally within parties. And certainly Israel and Palestine is one that has demonstrated the differences of opinion.

I contend that Bush would be a lot more moderate if there weren't some fundamentalists breathing down his neck every time he wants to establish the state of Israel, every time he wants to do justice for the Palestinian people.

If you want to boycott Israel because of Palestine, I don't think you actually care, because you're also boycotting 2 million Muslim Palestinian Israelis.

It's not good for Israel to have a Palestinian state in the heart of Israel.

While in Israel, Mitt Romney said something every sane person knows to be true: There is great cultural and political meaning in the fact that Israel has prospered while the Palestinians have festered.

For a good chunk of Israelis, it doesn't matter who is in power when it comes to dealing with the Palestinians. Their focus was more on economic issues.

The liberals in my neighbourhood wouldn't give away Brentwood to the Palestinians, but they want to give away Tel Aviv.

I don't feel we need a declaration from the Palestinians that they recognize Israel as a Jewish state.

Israel needs to separate from Netanyahu in order to separate from the Palestinians.