Quotes About Politics

The mass communications that could enable our politics for good have instead turned it into a bland conglomeration of stinted opinion cloaked in the occasional media frenzy of blame or denial.

Communism," I observed, "is a pile of wank.

Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't walk and chew gum at the same time.... He's a nice fellow, but he spent too much time playing football without a helmet.

In time of war, the loudest patriots are the greatest profiteers.

A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they arent still there, hes no longer a political leader.

Once upon a time, I thought denial was a river in Egypt. It's actually the attitude of the Abbott government.

Al Gore's Negro tolerance level has never been too high. I've never known him to have more than one black person around him at any given time.

Political differences will always generate a healthy debate, but over time the dialogue has become more hateful and at times violent.

If Barack Obama becomes the president in November again, I will either be dead or in jail by this time next year.

I have no time for political hacks who say things they don't believe because they get paid to.

We do not have time to play at "oppositions" at "conferences." We will keep our political opponents... whether open or disguised as "nonparty," in prison.

My grandmother's brain was dead, but her heart was still beating. It was the first time we ever had a democrat in the family.

It may be that just as tonality recurs in music and realism in painting, so the idea of liberalism recurs in politics-though each time in a different vein.

Interference with communications of science to the public has been greater during the current administration than at any time in my career.

The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state.

In 1995 the whole political situation was very complicated. I was the first deputy prime minister, and at the same time I had very low influence in the government.

I'm not into smoke-filled rooms. I don't have the time for byzantine political intrigues.

I've enjoyed doing Wolf Blitzer's program, and I even enjoyed having a heated debate with Bill O'Reilly. I will do it any time.

When Bush first got elected, the very first time there was talk of going to war with Iraq, the mainstream media gave his position total credibility. I didn't get it then, and I don't get it now

You'll never make America great again, [Donald] Trump, but you can extend her time.

Senator: Person who makes laws in Washington when not doing time.

It's time for the party of big ideas, not the party of Big Brother!

I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.

I'm coming from journalism, but at the same time I'm tempted by poetry, politics, and maybe the idea of being a witness, a belief that you can still change things with the image.