Quotes About Politics

I also focus on Bush and his administration - who do a lot of lying - and how a right-wing media has allowed them to get away with a lot of stuff that, in a different media environment, they probably wouldn't be able to get away with.

Jeb Bush, I appreciate you. You a leader. You a Bush.

Where my comedy really solidified was when Bush was elected. I couldn't understand how craven and crass he was, and how dumb other people were for electing him.

I'm a fan of Jeb Bush's.

There's a bigger difference between the first and second Bush administrations than there is between Bush and Obama. That's really true.

I was not a fan of the Bush administration, as I think many of us were not.

Make no mistake: you're going to see a lot of Bushes.

The business community is very comfortable with Romney.

Until Donald Trump got to where he was, they said you'll never see a rich businessman who's never been in politics be president. I clearly was wrong about that.

The thing I love about Donald, it's time this country is run by a businessman and not people with their hands out, and Donald doesn't have his hands out. I not only consider him as a friend, but if people get to know Donald Trump, I think they'll know what I'm talking about. He's one of the greatest human beings I've ever met in my life.

I'm a businessman. I never knew anything about politics. I know what's right, what's wrong and what's working.

I believe a democracy needs men and women of conviction in its positions of leadership in order for us to succeed. That's the subject of 'A Perfect Candidate,' a film I made 20 years ago about Oliver North and Charles Robb.

The difference between a Democrat and Republican is that Democrats fight to make sure everybody has an opportunity to succeed, and the Republicans are strangled by their right-wing extremists.

In the past, leaders of both parties have been able to reach across the partisan divide. They succeeded by retaining their own humanity and recognizing the same in their political opponents.

Neither politics of chaos and anarchy has succeeded earlier and nor will succeed in future.

In the 2000 election, George W. Bush, who had shirked military service, succeeded in presenting himself as more reliable on national security than Al Gore.

If, however, the success of a politician is to be measured by the degree in which he is able personally to influence the course of politics, and attach to himself a school of political thought, then Mr. Mill, in the best meaning of the words, has succeeded.

This country is a better place because Fox News has succeeded.

Obama has succeeded in descending even below George W. Bush in approval in the Arab world. It's minuscule, few percent.

Of all the numerous forms that governments have taken over the centuries, of all the concepts and institutions that have been tried, none has succeeded in keeping the State in check. The problem of the State is evidently as far from solution as ever.

The U.S. has always sought to sow intrigue against Iran but has never succeeded in the face of Iran's greatness.

A lot of America's success is because we're an open society and haven't brought dogma or religious influence into the American political process.

Lesson from Pataki's success is: Use the political moment.

In politics, sometimes the best measure of success is the reaction of your enemies.