Quotes About Politics

North American leftists just keep trying to relive the '60s, or to make the '60s happen again.

Sometimes you've got to make a hard decision, and there's a real reluctance to make hard decisions in Washington.

People turn off the news, stop reading in-depth magazine articles - especially young people. Look at the increasing reluctance of young people to vote. I think a lot of that is directly - you can lay it at the feet of these negative campaigns and relentless attack ads.

I always thought of myself is a private-sector person. I was a reluctant candidate. I put in my time. Now it's somebody else's turn to take charge. But I am still very interested in politics.

While I am reluctant to cite sexism as a political issue, sexism certainly can exist.

Democrats should insist that a pluralistic democracy such as ours rely on bipartisanship in formulating a foreign policy based on moderation and the nuances of the human condition.

Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.

I prefer the Greens to remain an opposition party that's able to hold the government to account.

Even if the Brits decide to remain, we will have to avoid a contagion on other countries.

I am not a politician-type politician and I want to remain that.

I got into acting to avoid politics of any sort so I could remain in a fantasy world.

I would say that every political party must remain in some form in a state or the Centre for the sake of democracy.

A politician ought to be born a foundling and remain a bachelor.

I believe politicians should always remain realistic.

While we remain a nation decisively shaped by religious faith, our politics and our culture are, in the main, less influenced by movements and arguments of an explicitly Christian character than they were even five years ago. I think this is a good thing - good for our political culture.

I like America. I think it's pretty cool. I got into acting to avoid politics of any sort so I could remain in a fantasy world.

I have known Harold Ford Jr. since before he was born, in that his father was my driver in the 1966 governor's race, and has remained a friend of mine all these years.

I read 'Animal Farm' when I was 11, and it remained my favorite book, really.

I first came to think about media and politics in the late 1960s, having observed some distortions up close, but since then I wouldn't say that my personal experience has remained an important motive for my writing about media.

Zanu-PF is a sacred party. It will rule and rule. Those barking will continue doing that while Zanu-PF remains in power.

'The world's wealthiest failed state,' as it has come to be known, Belgium endured 589 days without a functioning elected government between June 2010 and December 2011 and remains a dysfunctional, linguistically divided waxworks of one federal and five regional-cultural parliaments.

A campaign adviser can change the outside appearance of the candidate, but the ideology and personality of the candidate remains the same.

Politics still remains a very hostile, unwelcoming place for diverse peoples. It's the reason that we have so few of them in politics.

The most extreme among the Brexiters are convinced they can ride the chaos and deploy the 'shock doctrine' to remake the nation in their ideological image.