Quotes About Politics

There's never going to be a time where the Republican Party rallies around and says you have to get out or anyone has to get out for purposes of rallying around Donald Trump.

We were good reformers, but we weren't good enough. We elected a candidate and then, busy with our own affairs, we left him hanging in mid-air. Reformers are such part-time pillars of society!

If someone is doing something crazy - or what I think is crazy - I'm watching, but also am I keeping the actual seriousness of someone actually running for president in my mind all the time?

Now Republicans are a more interventionist party than they have been at any time since George W. Bush left office.

When I read Frank Miller's 'The Dark Knight Returns', I think it's a wonderful record of the Reagan era. I think it's amazing. This is the time I lived in.

There was a time I wanted to go into politics. And so all of a sudden, here I am, I guess. I'm in the thick of it.

In all countries, most of the time, official spokesman and official liar are the same thing!

You have had presidential candidates over the last 30 years who would have had a very hard time getting nominated under the old system. One example is John Kennedy.

But I'm not a member of the Democratic Party. If you know anything about me, anybody who's followed me, I'm the anti-Democrat. I have railed against the Democrats for a long time.

I think [Donald Trump's] incentives are not aligned with the Republican Party. I mean, they are part of the time, but they're not all of the time.

I've often been accused of spending more time and energy criticizing my fellow Democrats than criticizing Republicans.

It's time for conservative Americans to right the ship again.

It's time for us to come together, time for us to come together around this good man [Donald Trump].

Today I know this: when it comes time to take stock, the most painful wound is that of broken friendships; and there is nothing more foolish than to sacrifice a friendship to politics.

What happens in committee if the committee functions, more often than not, not every time but more often than not, a bill comes out with bipartisan support.

It was the right decision to go into Iraq. I supported it at the time; I support it now.

Look, I was an independent during the time of Reagan-Bush. I'm not trying to return to Reagan-Bush.

Republicans spent too much money, borrowed too much money, earmarked too much. In this race, I'm the only guy who hasn't spent time in Washington.

We're kept scrambling so much that we don't have time to really study and analyze and understand the way that power really works in this country.

In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.

Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.

Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a big enough majority in any town?

If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.

There is no distinctly native American criminal class save Congress.