Quotes About Politics

It's time to save the U.N. from its own scandals and mismanagement. It's time for U.N. Reform with teeth.

We have a president, who I think is a nice guy, but he spent too much time at Harvard, perhaps.

A couple of weeks is a long time in American politics.

We all like to hear a man speak out on his convictions and principles. But at the same time, you must understand that when you're running on a ticket, you're running with a team.

I've never known a time when the in-fighting in the Labour Party was so bitter.

I don't have time to beat around the bush. The health-care plan as proposed by Mrs. Clinton is socialism. There's no soft way to peddle it. There is not other way to describe it.

For the first time in history, the human species as a whole has gone into politics. Everyone is in the act, and there is no telling what may come of it.

Republicans are now trying to stop Donald Trump. And there was much more ferocious and widespread criticism from Republicans of Trump this time around.

Politics is tricky; it cuts both ways. Every time you make a choice, it has unintended consequences.

I mean, if you go back to 1960 on major pieces of legislation, the filibuster was used about eight percent of the time.

I now want more time to devote to politics and more freedom to do so.

Lebanon will be engulfed again in a huge power game that will last quite a long time. This is the tragic destiny of Lebanon.

I do not know much about politics, but I am trying to do the best I can with this administration until the time shall come for me to turn it over to somebody else.

A President doesn't have a terribly long time to talk to people who are not really on the agenda.

Over a period of time, I think the popular will in Iran will prevail.

For a long time in American history, people didn't even come up before the Senate. They didn't come before the Judiciary Committee, and up until about 1923, something like that.

The Civil War was started over economic issues, not slavery. The War was not popular in the North until the issue of slavery was added at a later time to turn it into a moral crusade.

Like a snail crossing a sidewalk, the Clinton Administration leaves a lengthening trail of slime, this time on America's national honor.

Clinton and Obama practice this politics known quaintly as the Richard Speck strategy: if you cannot take on everyone in the room at once, take them out of the room one at a time.

... it's hard to be politically conscious and upwardly mobile at the same time.

The first time Haiti had free and fair democratic elections was 1990, when I was elected.

I would be happy to run a race with Hillary Clinton any time.

The Republicans would like to take us back to a darker time, when corporations ruled and the underserved had no rights.

I never wanted to separate from either wife. It was accumulated stress. We had virtually no time to ourselves. After politics we were both working very hard to establish new careers.