Quotes About Politics

Teach kids not to fight. Can they change taxes? I'd get rid of all the congestion charges, because they've not stopped traffic. They're a waste of time, not that I'm getting all political.

We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elects a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons.

It's time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy.

These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.

There was a time when the United States government earned the trust of its people. There was a time when most people believed that the United States government was protecting them.

When times are tough, constant conflict may be good politics but in the real world, cooperation works better. After all, nobody's right all the time, and a broken clock is right twice a day.

The Civic Culture (and The Civic Culture Revisited) remains the best study of comparative political culture in our time.

I ... ran for Legislature [in 1832] ... and was beaten-the only time I have been beaten by the people.

Every time a congressman or pundit says its 'class warfare' to increase taxes on the wealthy, it's a massive lie.

I'm not a single-issue person, but I spend so much time on Israel because it is so unfairly condemned around the world.

Schemes to subvert the liberties of a great community require time to mature them for execution.

It's never a good time, when you're the president of the United States and your own party is finding lots of different ways to distance themselves from you.

If voting wasn't important, why would they be spending so much time and so much energy trying to stop you from doing it?

Liberals don't have to emerge from the hot tub and start attending NASCAR races or - God forbid - church, but it would be nice if they'd stop lying all the time.

What's fascinating is, people in Washington would rather spend time in Hollywood, and people in Hollywood would rather spend time in Washington.

I look forward to a time when Irish patriotism will as easily combine with British patriotism as Scottish patriotism combines now.

You now have the potential of 200 people deciding who ends up being elected president every single time.

These days, the House Republicans actually give John Boehner a harder time than they give me. Which means orange really is the new black.

I always enjoy watching Republicans compliment Bill Clinton now, because at the time, I'm sure he didn't feel a lot of the love.

It could be another election where the alignments between Republicans and Democrats are different than they were this time and who a foreign country prefers.

We cannot solve the problems of America if every time somebody somewhere says something stupid, that everybody gets up in arms and we forget about the war in Iraq or we forget about the economy.

The costliest myth of our time has been the myth of the Communist monolith.

We don't say that we don't have it, we're still secular in Syria, but with the time, this secularism will be eroded.

What we're witnessing really is a political realignment, I mean I think we're moving from a traditional understanding of left-right politics that we've had for a long time.