Quotes About Politics

Nigel Farage has persuaded too many people that we have lost control of our borders.

There is too much at stake for us to surrender to the politics of polarization.

I don't know anything about politics. I wouldn't put too much into my prediction on politics.

Oil could complicate domestic politics in countries with too much of it - there is a reason economists talk about 'the curse of oil,' and dictatorships have thrived in countries with abundant natural resources.

There has been far too much hypocrisy in the field of civil rights. It is easy enough to give rousing speeches or call for legislation which has no possibility of passage.

American political elites feel very empowered to criticize the American intelligence community for not doing enough when they feel in danger, and as soon as we've made them feel safe again, they feel equally empowered to complain that we're doing too much.

I can tell you that too much money is corrupting American politics. Don't blame the American public. The U.S. Supreme Court has a lot to answer for, because it has made it impossible for Congress to reduce the corrupting influence of money on American political life.

Look, we know we screwed up when we were in the majority. We fell in love with power. We spent way too much money - especially on earmarks. There was too much corruption when we ran this place. We were guilty. And that's why we lost.

There is simply too much corruption, too much money available for the taking.

Some critics say I spent too much time on politics. I don't put much stock in the critics.

People in politics tend to spend far too much time on higher profile issues affecting few people and too little time on such basic processes that affect thousands or millions and which we know how to do much better.

The people in Washington spend too much time in Washington, so they think Washington-centric thoughts.

A lot of time, if you spend too much time in Nashville, songwriters get caught up in charts and numbers and the music business politics.

No political event can be judged outside of the era and the circumstances in which it took place.

Fascism was a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place.

I took and received campaign donations under the existing laws.

Edward Heath and Richard Nixon took personal awkwardness with each other to new and excruciating levels.

I've said the election of Obama has made the hustler less relevant. People took it in a way that I was almost dismissing what I am. And I was like, 'No, it's a good thing!'

I definitely think my ancestry has something to do with my politics. And I think being deeply suspicious of government and communists is implicit in a lot of first-generation immigrants, particularly from Eastern Europe. My mom came over from Romania when she was a kid and they fled the commies who took their family hemp farm.

Stoking fears of a potential shutdown is a strong motivational tool to get members on board with legislation that they don't want to support. Both parties are guilty of this.

The death penalty in the U.S. has become a political tool - and it should never be that.

Humor is a powerful tool, and some of these politicians are so far out and easy to lampoon. They just provide such delicious opportunity.

I'm a novelist, a critic, an essayist - I tend to see politics as a subset of cultures rather than the other way around. It's a human enterprise, a tool or a technology revealing our collective inner self.

Art should not be a tool of politics, but sometimes art can help make the political climate more open and help society become more free.