Quotes About Politics

It is important for this country to make its people so obsessed with their own liberal individualism that they do not have time to think about a world larger than self.

I look at the Senior Al Gore that I had the chance to serve in the Senate with. A great human being. He went down to defeat to this right wing bunch back at the time.

When I was 20, political music was the uncoolest thing on earth. But when Bush got elected, that was the first time I started actually reading the news.

I'm afraid that the United States is more isolated today than at any other time in my memory.

I never voted for a president until I felt Obama had a dream and might pull it off, and that was the first time I ever voted for a president.

In physics, to be in two places at the same time would be a miracle; in politics it seems not merely normal, but natural.

The major parties could conduct live human sacrifices on their podiums during prime time, and I doubt that anybody would notice.

Donald Trump announced that he is not running for president. He would rather spend his time making Gary Busey sell Snapple on the street.

Hillary Clinton is running for president. This time around, she promises to be warm and approachable. Like me.

I am struck by the fact that personal faith and political agendas are intertwined more closely now than at any other time in recent history.

House Democrats have tried to increase port security funding on this House floor four times over the last 4 years, and House Republicans have defeated our efforts every single time.

Every time I nostalgically try to regain my liking of John McCain, he reaches into his sleaze bag and pulls out something malodorous.

The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.

Well, I know I worked for Governor Rockefeller the last time he ran for his fourth term, and I obviously ran against Governor Cuomo the time he ran for his fourth term.

After all, this is a guy that tried to kill my dad at one time.

Adlai Stevenson has a genius for saying the right thing, at the right time, to the wrong people.

For the first time perhaps since Margaret Thatcher, we will have at the head of the Conservative Party someone who is genuinely an equal match for Tony Blair.

It would perhaps be as well if things were to remain quiet for a few years yet, so that all this 1848 democracy has time to rot away.

Too often in Washington special interests urge us to fight one another just because we belong to different parties. It is time for this to stop and for Washington to focus on what needs to be done.

'Kane and Abel' is the best popular fiction of all time. As a kid, I wanted to be prime minister when I read 'First Among Equals.'

History makes the point time and time again No greater mischief can be created than to merge the power of religion with the power of government.

I think it [presidency of Dwight Eisenhower] came too late and I think that he is not on the wavelength of this dreadful time through which we're living.

For a long time, many Republicans thought if they just took two aspirin and laid down, [Donald] Trump would go away.

The idea that more taxes and more government spending is the best way to help hardworking middle class taxpayers - that's an old idea that's failed every time it's been tried.