Quotes About Politics

I knew that I could never win a referendum in Germany. We would have lost a referendum on the introduction of the euro. That's quite clear. I would have lost, and by seven to three.

I don't want to go to prison... but there is nothing they can do to me that will make me stop this referendum.

Generally, Senate races are not a referendum on the president or on any one issue but a choice between the two candidates on the ballot.

I actually don't believe in governance by referendum. I believe that we have a democracy, that we elect people to make decisions.

Quite simply, without UKIP, there would not have been a referendum. I am convinced that the 'we want our country back, we want our borders back' message that we took across the country on an open-top double decker energised non-voters to back Brexit.

The Government has boxed itself in by trying to codge together this weird fake Brexit in the hope of committing people to somehow delivering on the referendum result.

Although economic grievances were critical in delivering the referendum result, Brexit has fomented an all-out culture war.

Actually, I never wanted an E.U. referendum, and I think those who called for it will one day wish they hadn't.

The reason I say 'never say never' is because I do not think that there should be another independence referendum in Scotland - I do not think it's in their interest - but on the other hand, I am a big believer in devolution.

The Brexit referendum showed us to be divided, and those of us who campaigned for remain have to accept that we lost. But that does not mean that we have to agree to the deal the prime minister has brought back - a deal that satisfies no one.

Obama was referred to in terms so glowing, so fulsome, so toadying that it was easy to pin down the journalist class of 2008 as a group of fangirls squeeing and fainting at his every utterance.

What's historically been referred to as 'gerrymandering' can more aptly be labeled an incumbent protection program.

We should not have the president of the United States referring to segments of American society as the enemy of the people.

Referring to the PAP as uncaring so as to persuade some of our fellow Singaporeans to consider casting their vote for the WP will be self-defeating for us.

Even though Cambridge Analytica has dissolved, the capabilities are still there, the platforms are still there, the people are still there. What happens when China becomes the next Cambridge Analytica? Like anything, the second, third, fourth time you do something, you start to refine and perfect it.

Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.

The Democrats handle dissent by isolating it, smearing it and delegitimizing it in order to crush it.

I believe things that happen in the ANC family must be handled there.

I honestly think Derek Jeter could run for mayor in New York, and if not win, get really close, just the way he handled himself.

I never got into politics for it to be a career. It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.

Brexit will happen.

If something happened along the route and you had to leave your children with Bob Dole or Bill Clinton, I think you would probably leave them with Bob Dole.

I think one of the saddest things that's happening to literature is that it's getting over-simplified by this diet of simple political ideas.

I could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy.