Quotes About Politics

There are some people bent on blowing up the situation in the country. I call them the fifth column. They are not an opposition. They want to stage a rebellion in the country. Their dream is to topple the government and overthrow the president.

My goal is to show people that conservatives are funny. In fact, we're the rebels: we're 'Animal House.'

A national party cannot win an election riding piggyback on the rebels of the rival party.

While the problems facing the country are huge, it is in times of great disruption that we can make the most important changes to our society and help to rebuild our fractured, broken politics.

Part of the reason I moved from law to politics was an increasingly profound belief that how we rebuild after the 2008 crash is going to define us for a generation.

We will need to work hard to break the cynicism, talk straight and rebuild trust in politics.

Brexit isn't just about leaving the E.U. It's also about rebuilding trust with the electorate.

You don't get to recall a senator just because you don't like her or just because you want the seat for your own party.

I don't ever recall having a political argument with Bob Grant. I've known him a long time. I've always liked him.

I'lI say this: I recall entering Congress in 1971 and being called a 'feminist' by members of my own party as if it was a dirty word. They didn't realize that I wore that label as a badge of honor.

I don't recall Pakistan ever mixing sports with politics.

I maintain that the House is bound by the Constitution to receive the petitions; after which, it will take such method of deciding upon them as reason and principle shall dictate.

While it is important that black women begin to receive the accolades and assistance they are due from the Democratic Party, they cannot be expected to continue to save white people from the poor choices they make - based not on moral values but party affiliation.

When China was only Communist, everyone received the Dalai Lama, but now that China is hyper-capitalist, he gets blacked out.

I am involved with politics today because of the inspiration I received from Ronald Reagan.

It borders on inconceivable that Clinton didn't know that the emails she received - and, more obviously, the emails that she created, stored and sent with the server - would contain classified information.

Gadhafi opponents included many 'good guys,' but they never received the support necessary to govern a new Libya after he was gone.

On the House side, when Donald Trump came, he received multiple standing ovations.

I've received love in both politics and filmdom.

For many decades, Myanmar was on the receiving end of very public diplomatic scoldings, often backed up by sanctions.

In the 2016 U.S. Senate race, I was on the receiving end of more than $3 million in outside negative attacks funded by the NRA, the second-most spent on any Senate campaign in the country.

Christopher Hitchens's autobiography, 'Hitch 22', is a poignant read and very interesting because I have a very poor knowledge of recent political history - or, for that matter, distant political history.

Barack Obama has come closer than any figure in recent history to obeying a direct call of the people to the brutal and bloody fields of political mission.

In recent years it's become really apparent, the division between what government is and what communities want.