Quotes About Politics

We just need leaders in Congress who are honest with the American people.

The Democrats filibustered something in the Senate when I was eight years old. I don't remember what it was on and I didn't honestly care when I was eight years old. I cared about the history and the Senate rules.

A life in politics is for people who know themselves and know where their own line is between loyalty and honesty.

Hope and Change has become Divide and Conquer.

I've had shows where, afterwards, people have commented or hoped I would talk more about something in politics or that I would make a joke about Mitch McConnell or something like that.

In terms of the conservative movement, I do think it would be foolish to deny that Trump has exposed certain aspects of that movement as less healthy than I thought or hoped.

There are a lot of undecideds in this country that are hopefully right of center, not left of center.

My deal is you start as far to the right as you can get, and go to the conference committee with the Senate, and hopefully end up with something you can live with.

I will vote my hopes and not my fears.

What I'm hoping to do is see Democrats get elected. That's what I'm trying to contribute to.

Leader Reid is doing a horrendous job.

Hillary Clinton is a dud. She's horrible.

It's horrible when actors say that they are apolitical.

Everyone should work in politics to see how horrible it is.

What we call politics now and what most political writers write about is the empathy and the bonding and the word choice and the horse rights, and it has nothing to do with what's really happening to people's lives.

Hillary Clinton's time in the Senate indicates she is happier being a policy workhorse than a show horse.

Most people understand that Lehman Brothers didn't collapse because Gordon Brown built too many schools and hospitals.

We are being held hostage by the people we elect.

When I was first elected I got 50% of the vote in '77 in the general election. In '81 I got 75%. In '85, I got 78%. No mayor has ever gotten that high a vote. So it was not an issue. Except for people who were very hostile to me. They thought they would injure me.

Macri only wooed hot money, carry traders and speculators. He is the only responsible person for the hardship Argentina is going through.

I love watching 'House of Cards.'

'House of Cards' is aiming for truth, not accuracy.

Who needs shows like 'House of Cards' or 'Scandal' when you can simply turn on the news?

For far too long the House of Commons has been run as little more than a private club by and for gentleman amateurs.