Quotes About Politics

I do think there is a great deal of caricature around the House of Commons. It is just that kind of place.

In politics, they found there were not enough females in the House of Commons, so they came up with the idea of shortlists having to have women on them.

I was brought up in a Democrat household. My mom believed the lies she was told, that she needed government to raise her five children.

Energy is not a political issue for the Modi government. It is our commitment to provide electricity to every household of the country.

In 2006, the DMK gave television sets worth Rs 2,000, but collected Rs 3,000 for cable connection from each household. By this, the DMK leaders have earned Rs 25,000 crore of income.

There are a lot of people who go to Washington or go to their state houses with a personal ambition in mind.

On Capitol Hill and in state houses across the country, anti-women's health politicians continue to make it clear that they will stop at nothing to end access to a safe, legal abortion.

I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.

People used to ask me: 'Well, was it the power that attracted you to Bill Clinton?' And I said, well, how much power do you think the attorney general of Arkansas has? Of course not. It wasn't that for me. I just a thought he was wonderful in general.

However flawed democracy is, it is still the only answer.

However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone.

We know that second terms have historically been marred by hubris and by scandal.

I had a lot of hubris going into politics, but I didn't think I was Pierre Trudeau.

The last thing we need in Washington is more federal hubris.

If Narendra Modi can hug Nawaz Sharif then what is wrong in Hardik Patel meeting me?

As a longtime political operative, I know firsthand how a vote here or a vote there can make a huge difference in a close election.

I'm a huge fan of the Clintons. I love Hillary; I love Bill.

There is nobody that I know who believes that Bank of America is a human being who should be entitled for the same constitutional rights that the people of our country are.

All that happens is that the destruction of human beings - unless they're Americans - is called collateral damage.

We represent the only efficient moral, intellectual and political force capable of saving human civilization.

I think Americans are looking for like a human element in their politicians. And they all understand, look, they've got kids who do bad things, too.

Human evolution relies on cooperation, which is why identity politics feels so backward.

My books are not 'political.' I don't make political demands. They actually describe life. But when we look at human life, politics creeps in everywhere.

You cannot write about what people are really like without making a political adjudication. All our ideas of what human nature consists of or how people really feel and experience life are, at their base, political ideas.