Quotes About Politics

Politics is a lot of serendipity. You're in the right place and the right time and you've got the right message, and it either connects for you or, or it doesn't.

The form of government is a democracy when the free, who are also poor and the majority, govern, and an oligarchy when the rich and the noble govern, they being at the same time few in number.

If I can make a generalization, men get into politics because, from the time they're little boys, they've been wanting to be President.

We've been dealing with this kind of terrorism since the fifties, since the Muslim Brotherhood came to Syria at that time.

When President Clinton starts talking about what is moral, as he did when recommending a national law banning human cloning, it's time for us to lock up our daughters.

The last time I was in a gym, Dukakis was running for president.

I was reading a lot of Thomas Jefferson at the time, and Jefferson said that every 20 years, if one party has stayed in power, it's your obligation as an American to vote the other party in.

The next time your daughter asks, 'Where are all the men?' Tell them that the Democratic party and its policies got rid of them'

When a secretary of state rakes in millions and millions of dollars trading access and favors to special interests and foreign powers, I know the time for action has come.

If Margaret Thatcher had been Prime Minister at the time, there would have been no Treaty of Maastricht.

We began as restless and radical. Remember the spirit of 1997, but by the end of our time in office we had lost our way.

A second characteristic of our time is the prevalence of nationalism. This is still spreading, affecting new communities, more peripheral regions and so-called backward peoples.

If Donald Trump were elected, it would be the first time a little boy became president.

There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes.

The only time you'll see me as a Democrat is when I play Sophia. In the real world I'm a Republican from head to toe.

Communism is a form of government under which every citizen at election time enjoys the privilege of voting Yes.

About the only time Congress conforms to the will of the people is when it decides to adjourn.

Not a single time have we gotten a right from Congress or from the President. We get them from God.

I sometimes read that it's time for German democracy to finally grow up. I don't see it as a sign of maturity if we treat military missions as something normal.

Some of the presidents were great and some of them weren't. I can say that, because I wasn't one of the great presidents, but I had a good time trying to be one, I can tell you that.

Guantanamo has become the gulag of our time.

No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.

Every time there's been an out-of-bounds remark made by a Republican, no matter where they are, I have repudiated them.

You can track elections by who was playing that president on 'SNL' at that time. There's the theory that the more likable or charismatic impression would help get the president elected.