Quotes About Politics

Trump and his cronies took it all back. They understand culture no more than a donkey understands algebra.

But the people didn't elect buffoons to Washington. Well—hardly ever.

I believe in and love the populist, nationalist, antiglobalist rebellion happening all over the West.

I'm going to be honest, I would love for Flava Flav to be president. It would bring a lot of excitement to the country.

To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way.

I love the place that I live, but I hate the people in charge.

I didn't run for student council president. I don't see myself in any way in elected office. I love policy. I'm not particularly fond of politics.

We love your adherence to democratic principles and to democratic processes.

I'm a believer in the Tea Party. I love the Tea Party. I love the people in the Tea Party. And, yes, I have a lot of different likes and maybe dislikes. And I don't know why.

I love being able to be political without any political affiliation.

Our new battle is not with overt Marxist tyranny, but with something more subtle—an irreligious government that wants to agglomerate ever more power over our lives in the name of making things fairer and keeping people happier, of smoothing over our differences and soothing our fragile egos.

Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president.

I was ecstatic they re-named 'French Fries' as 'Freedom Fries'. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.

I was ecstatic when they re-named "French fries" as "freedom fries." Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.

When you come from desperate poverty, and that's exactly what I come from, you know that nonsenses are not to be tolerated. I'm not sure who gains from chaos, but I know it's not the poor folks in the council flats. The politics of vindictiveness is never, ever anything like a solution.

I came back from university thinking I knew all about politics and racism, not knowing my dad had been one of the youngest-serving Labour councillors in the town and had refused to work in South Africa years ago because of the situation there. And he's never mentioned it - you just find out. That's a real man to me. A sleeping lion.

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What drew me to politics in the first place was the fact that I wanted to have a place to take a stand and use my voice to express what I believed in. But I've no longer got any political aspirations. I feel that as a politician, fifty per cent of people would hate you before you even left the house.

Politics is a lot of serendipity. You're in the right place and the right time and you've got the right message, and it either connects for you or, or it doesn't.

Normal people don't just wake up in the morning and say I think it'd be a good idea to run for president of the United States.

Lobbyists used to operate by getting you to believe in what they were pushing. Now they operate by scaring you into wondering what will happen if you don't. Politics has become a job for the weak-minded and thin-skinned among us. The only principles these people know are the ones they're paid to have.

It would be great if politics were fact-based, but it is not, and it is surely not nuance-based. What works in a classroom or a think tank does not work on Capitol Hill or in the White House. Obama sometimes seems to be running the Brookings Institution, not the country.

While we remain a nation decisively shaped by religious faith, our politics and our culture are, in the main, less influenced by movements and arguments of an explicitly Christian character than they were even five years ago. I think this is a good thing - good for our political culture.

Here is a pretty good rule of thumb for Democratic Presidents: if it didn't work for Franklin D. Roosevelt, who won four terms and a World War, it probably won't work for you either.