Quotes About Politics

I've noticed that in the U.S., when the president hits the three-year mark in office, he goes into re-election campaigning.

The love affair between black folks and the Clintons has been going on for a long time. It began back in 1992, when Bill Clinton was running for president. He threw on some shades and played the saxophone on 'The Arsenio Hall Show.' It seems silly in retrospect, but many of us fell for that.

Even before Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton threw their exploratory committees into the ring, every reporter seemed to be asking, 'Which candidate are Americans more ready for: a white woman or a black man?'

Endorsing Ronald Reagan in 1980, Kissinger threw in with America's new militarists, who would jump-start a revived Cold War and drive to retake the Third World.

Writing at the 'American Spectator' in the 1990s, we threw everything we thought would stick at President Clinton.

I put myself and my company at the C.I.A.'s disposal for some very risky missions. But when it became politically expedient to do so, someone threw me under the bus.

I have said before, you don't expect conservative parties to believe in much, but you do expect them to believe in thrift.

With 'House of Cards,' you really get the heart and the meat of drama - and it's a thriller!

Real politics is messy and morally ambiguous and doesn't make for a compelling thriller.

It's interesting how thrillers reflect the times we live in.

I loved being governor. It was a blast. Eight years was enough. But it was certainly one of the greatest thrills in my life to be able to serve the people of Florida. I miss that from time to time.

So long as I'm president, communism will not thrive here.

America thrives on identity politics, left and right. But France is opposed to the idea. Since the Revolution, the French have enthroned the idea of universalism. All of us must be equal before the law as abstract individuals, and that extends to the arts.

The American Communists had thrived as champions of domestic reform.

I don't think that a woman in politics exists or thrives on her own.

It takes a certain personality to thrive as a member of the House.

We can have a political system that works for the people and allows for the economy to thrive. It doesn't have to be either.

A real diplomat is one who can cut his neighbor's throat without having his neighbor notice it.

I will not allow America's elections to be further corrupted by radical left-wing policies shoved down our throats.

You can't jam change down the American people's throat.

I haven't heard Obama ask us for our consent when he's trying to ram Obamacare down our throats.

Just as radical heirs apparent are said to lay aside all inconvenient revolutionary opinions when they come to the throne, it was believed that Mr. Mill in Parliament would be an entirely different person from Mr. Mill in his study.

We read too much Shakespeare at school, and view our parliamentary politics as dynastic drama, in which an impatient crown prince frets at his long subordination and begins to scheme for the throne he knows he merits, was promised and has earned.

Political satire is a serious thing. In democratic newspapers throughout the world there are daily cartoons that often are not even funny, as is the case especially in many English-language newspapers. Instead, they contain a political message, and the artist takes full responsibility.