Quotes About Politics

I love representing Minnesota in the Senate.

Representing the people is not something 'our' representatives do. They are too busy representing a handful of private interest groups such as the financial sector, the military/security complex, and agribusiness.

A lot of people in America and Europe feel that their governments are not representing them very much.

What Trump represents is a restoration - a restoration of true American capitalism.

We should fight to preserve a country where people such as Michael Moore get to miss the point as badly as he misses it. Michael Moore represents everything I detest in a human being.

I'm political in the sense that there's much to be done, but I'm apolitical in the sense that I don't think there's a party that represents anything I believe in.

To women, Americans of color, and the citizens of the world, Donald Trump, if he is taken at his word, represents a threat to you all.

The style of politics that Damian McBride represents has been discredited, and Labour has moved on.

The danger in our system is that the general government, which represents the interests of the whole, may encroach on the states, which represent the peculiar and local interests, or that the latter may encroach on the former.

The Knesset members - Jews and Arabs - don't represent the state of Israel. The government is the one that represents the state of Israel officially.

I don't think Donald Trump represents the Republican Party... I think more and more people are going to realize that they really don't trust him.

Trump was elected, in large part, to disrupt everything that the WEF represents.

Congress increasingly represents the diversity of America.

Whenever the Congress represents the increasing diversity of the United States, that's a good thing.

I have white friends who have the Confederate flag on their license plates, and I have no issue with that if they see that as a matter of heritage. But I do not think it should ever fly over a state, city, county building, or school, for the simple reason that it represents secession from the Union.

Our government works best when it represents the needs of the American people, not special interests.

I've been left to wonder if it's the national Republican Party Scott Brown represents, or the people of Massachusetts? Let me add that I believe it's a fair question to ask of any of us, Republican or Democrat, who have the privilege of being sent to Washington.

The Chinese are good at repression and can be pretty ruthless about it.

Yes, fear and repression may be permanent citizens in Narendra Modi's Gujarat.

I deeply believe - and not just as a matter of politics, but even as a matter of morality - that matters about reproduction and intimacy and relationships and contraception are in the personal realm. They're moral decisions for individuals to make for themselves. And the last thing we need is government intruding into those personal decisions.

For Democrats to reduce women to beggars for cheap government-funded birth control is demeaning to the women that I know who are far more complicated than their libido and the management of their reproductive system.

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

I have always reckoned the dignity of the republic of first importance and preferable to life.

In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.