Quotes About Politics

What the hell is a Republican? What the hell is a Democrat? I don't care. I've always urged people to make sure you vote for the right guy.

I went into politics for the reasons most people do: ambition, self-righteousness, and a desire to help others.

I don't think Brexit is going to help people in Britain.

I helped lead the effort to defeat communism in the Congress.

As David Cameron so brutally found out in 2015-16, there is limited appetite in Brussels to be helpful or flexible towards Britain.

Anybody who runs for president in this country and comes out as strong as the Democrats were about helping the poor folks and black folks is not going to win.

I have always been an old-line Henry Clay Whig.

Patrick Henry aligned himself against ratification. So did Richard Henry Lee.

Back when the powerful 19th-century senator Henry Clay was called 'the great compromiser,' achieving a compromise really was considered great.

The job of every president is to ride herd over Congress.

The only hero known to my childhood was Henry Clay.

I don't believe there are heroes or saviours in politics.

My father's political heroes were Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman.

What has Dianne Feinstein done... I'll put my legislative background up against hers any day.

I have no hesitation in challenging government of whatever party.

When you endorse a Republican, everyone sort of frowns on you. I don't know why, but hey.

Maybe this is my left-wing conspiracy theory, but the right has re-branded itself as kind of the everyman party: Who's the person you'd rather have a beer with? The Republican Party, even though it's a party of incredible wealth and corporate interests, has hidden behind this everyman quality.

Enter politics, and you enter the glass house; there are no secrets and no places to hide.

Demagogues always have something to hide.

I have nothing to hide, and I call upon those who are scared by the National Front to look up the National Front's manifesto. It's quite easy on the Internet.

Too often, it's the Washington way to hide, point fingers, and try to place blame on someone else.

I've been in politics a long time and the only way you survive is by getting the hide of a rhino.

It's not at all a secret that I was one of the co-founders of Brand New Congress, and we've never tried to hide our goals.

The French people need to have all the facts so they can choose. And I won't be running away from it or hiding from it.