Quotes About Politics

The House of Representatives eliminated the filibuster way back in the 19th century, and somehow it managed to survive.

I try to put myself in others' shoes: How does any country give up any sovereignty and expect to survive as a government? I don't think that any Philippine president, or any leader for that matter, can afford to give up any portion of territorial sovereignty. That would be political suicide.

One day before I die, I will finally understand why liberals, especially Jewish liberals, fail to fully support Israel in its right to survive terror attacks.

I am not sure about Bill Nelson. I haven't heard him say, 'Let's junk the NASA plan to send humans to the moon.' He's not about to say that. That would not be very popular.

'USA Today' once did a big article called, 'Who said it? Was it Norm or George Bush?' They had quotes of mine and quotes of his, and they went to some congressmen and senators and said, 'Who said it?' It was hysterical.

Political debate with liberals is basically impossible in America today because liberals are calling names while conservatives are trying to make arguments.

Russian Parliament today is a bunch of puppets that just fall in with the instructions from Kremlin.

From where many of us in the U.K. sit, American politics is hopelessly polarized. All kinds of issues get bundled up into two great heaps. The rest of the world, today and across the centuries, simply doesn't see things in this horribly oversimplified way.

Today's Republican party is too beholden to factions generally.

Is anyone serious about the politics of happiness? David Cameron dipped a toe in the water, using the word lightly, but denying the hard policies it implies. Labour shies away from it, but should take up the challenge.

I don't subscribe to this view that the far-right is somehow in control of the Conservative party from top to toe.

No man or woman should be denied the fruits of his labor simply because they refuse to toe a partisan or political line.

There are plenty of politically motivated pretenders out there preparing to punk you, and you better be on your toes.

I am a temperance Republican down to my toes.

I think good governance and good politics can go together.

Palestine is the cement that holds the Arab world together, or it is the explosive that blows it apart.

Democratic, Republican members of Congress get along fine. But what you have is this institutional Hatfield and McCoy sentiment coming from our constituents, where the base of both sides doesn't want people to get along. But the majority of Americans, I feel, the majority, they are in the middle. They actually do want both sides to get together.

We're going right down the toilet, and it's a made-in-China toilet.

In politics, you're like a toilet seat: you're up one day and down the next.

My country is in the toilet. And when my country is in the toilet, the world is in the toilet.

House Republicans are flimsier than toilet paper, except toilet paper actually has use. They're so pathetic.

Modi says he built 850,000 toilets in Bihar one week. That's roughly 1.5 toilets per second. We can't even go to the toilet in that much time.

Capitalism is at least tolerable, which cannot be said of Socialism or Communism.

I believe in an India of pluralism and diversity, not of religious bigotry and caste politics. I believe in an India that is secure in itself and confident of its place in the world, an India that is a proud example of tolerance, freedom and hope for the downtrodden.