Quotes About Politics

Bipartisan reformers have long recognized that earmarks make way for corruption.

The rights of one sex, political and otherwise, are the same as those of the other sex, and this equality of rights ought to be fully recognized.

Putin recognized that if he could get enough money, everything would be under control.

In the old days, there were a couple of TV channels and that was it, so every channel tried to appeal to as broad of an audience as possible. Newt Gingrich recognized a way to bypass this and he did so through CSPAN.

You're to the right of Hobby Lobby if you don't support $15. Hobby Lobby recognized that you got to pay people $15 an hour. So if Hobby Lobby gets it, and you don't as a Democrat, what's your problem, you know?

I as an elected official would never recommend anybody to boycott any city or state.

If you're a politician, you might want to learn the Buddhist way of negotiation. Restoring communication and bringing back reconciliation is clear and concrete in Buddhism.

I am against any reconciliation with Israel.

Because of President Obama's failed record on nearly every issue from the economy to the deficit to Medicare, the Obama campaign has become increasingly dirty, despicable, and desperate.

I'll put my conservative record up against anybody's record. I have a 10-year career in public service, and I'm proud of the things I've been able to accomplish.

When I left politics in the early Eighties and started writing and recording, my idea was that I could have an influence further down into other generations. That Natives could come into the culture through arts and music.

Elections aren't about records, they're about plans and choices.

The only politician in my family was my grandfather's grandfather, who was the mayor of Winnipeg from Jan. 1, 1917, until Jan. 5, 1917, because he lost the recount. So he was mayor of Winnipeg for four days.

After the 2000 election, which hinged on the results of a recount in Florida, Democrats smeared President George W. Bush as 'selected, not elected.'

I'm not really a political animal but I am rather fascinated by the meltdown of England and America. In the end, it seems as if America might come out of it, but I'm not sure if England is ever going to recover.

Bush's presidency is revisionism-proof. We're going to be recovering from it for the rest of our lives.

We could have a political movement going if it had been properly organized but the Monarchy's done itself enormous damage possibly beyond the point of long-term recovery.

While I support making improvements in the Affordable Care Act, trying to enact them while holding the government and our economic recovery hostage is reckless and irresponsible.

A government subsidized economic recovery, is not an economic recovery - it's an entitlement state.

What I really love is modern political history. I love the research process, whether it's digging through old newspaper stories, artifacts from election campaigns or TV stories and being able to recreate moments in history that - when you look back at them now - you can get to that question of how did we get here.

I think it's totally possible and plausible that racial balkanization is a recurring aspect of the nature of human politics.

I ain't a Communist necessarily, but I been in the red all my life.

The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face.

Red lines are kind of political arguments that are used to try to put people in a corner.