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Quotes About Politics

I think we have a fascinating new and quite dominant input into politics - and it wont go away. From time to time, people articulate a view that we should ban opinion polls, but that's nonsense.
~ Jim Bolger
There is no question we are having a difficult time rounding up the votes.
~ Jim Nussle
Pat Robertson is an embarrassment to the church and a danger to American politics, .. It's time for Christian leaders of all stripes to call on Robertson not just to apologize but to retire.
~ Jim Wallis
Trump is running for president and he's wasting no time getting down to business. In fact, just after his announcement he demanded to see Jeb Bush's birth certificate.
~ Jimmy Fallon
President Obama just made his first presidential trip to the state of Utah. Obama spent his time in Utah just like you'd expect - telling people, 'Uh, no, I don't play for the Jazz.'
~ Jimmy Fallon
I love the Upper West Side. I walk down the street all the time and am stopped by Democrats. I don't think they've ever actually met a Republican before.
~ Joe Scarborough
During the whole time I sat with him in Congress, I never heard him utter three sentences together.
~ John Adams
My dad took me to John Kennedy's inauguration when I was 8. We come every time, Republican and Democrat, because of this great country.
~ John Barrasso
Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.
~ John Berger
I remember the '80s being about the Cold War and Reagan and the homeless problem and AIDS. To me, it was kind of a dark, depressing time.
~ John Cusack
Republicans and Democrats spend so much time fighting and then they're all aghast, you know, and so it's just not the way we ought to be. The coarseness is not acceptable.
~ John Kasich
I think the administration can do a lot of good by telling folks that are on their side of the aisle, look, we may have lost the election on the Democrat side, but it's time to come together.
~ John Lewis
(Obama) really has no experience or knowledge or judgment about the issue of Iraq and he has wanted to surrender for a long time.
~ John McCain
I have said for a long time that I thought the president would be best served if the attorney general resigned so I think it's the right thing to do.
~ John McCain
Living with the liberals, you get to hear their arguments, fight with them all the time. Keeps me alert.
~ John Stossel
I'm running for senator because it's time for a change.
~ John Sununu
Politicians must pick sides regularly; every time they vote. So it's perhaps natural that they see the world as a battle between competing groups.
~ Jon Kyl
Apparently the only time the press gets it right is when the White House illegally leaks it to them.
~ Jon Stewart
…majority rule gives the ruthless strong man plenty of elbow room to oppress his fellows.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
There has never been a more important time to vote for the Green Party!
~ Steven Magee
Every day in America is a day with a shooting.
~ Bill Maher
That's not water. That's socialism juice. We should bomb Lake Erie.
~ Bill Maher
It's as if inside the White House the belief in Obama's inspirational charisma is still such that every time the ugliness of brute politics intrudes, it's a startling revelation.
~ Tina Brown
At the time of his death, John Kennedy had a national security establishment that was a writhing ball of snakes.
~ Charlie Pierce