Quotes About Politics

A republic and a democracy are pretty much identical, pretty much on every level.

We have a constitutional republic, not a democracy.

This liberal progressive agenda... is the antithesis of who we are as a constitutional republic.

If we just go back to the basics... I do not want to give up our republic and become a socialistic ideological nation. That's not who we are.

As a president I will be like the candidate that I am, a respectful candidate, a rallying candidate, a normal candidate for a normal presidency, at the service of the Republic.

Banana republics are run on cronyism.

The political power of the Country must fall eventually into the hands of certain great families as it always has done in other republics.

My fate is to be President of the Republic - or leader of the opposition.

I think that this liberal progressive agenda is not the thing that the American people want and it's antithesis to who we are as a constitutional republic.

Now one of two things is true: Either a republic is a desirable form of government, or else it is not.

This is America, not a banana republic.

I have just come from the castle, where I have seen the president of the republic, and I can tell you that he has accepted all of my proposals without making any changes.

This country is a republic.

Republics, like other forms of government, exist in history and can rise and fall.

In the case of Papa Pope, certainly he's making his daughter's world and the world of the republic a much better place.

The extraordinary context of 'Coriolanus' is that it's the first republic - it's the first attempt to create a society not ruled by a monarch. It changes the whole system, and you see how the establishment reacts to that, how they have disdain but play along - and you recognize this is the whole American republican system.

I read Mitch Daniels's book, 'Keeping the Republic,' several times.

Donald Trump is many things - a tantrum-throwing man-child and a wannabe strongman pining for his very own banana republic among them - but perhaps most of all he is a giant, melon-colored distraction from what is happening to our country under his watch.

A banana republic we are not.

A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.

I'm a Christian, a conservative, and a Republican, in that order.

I'm a Republican. I may go into politics myself.

The only way to be punk rock in L.A. is to be a Republican.

The Republican consciousness has no integrity and it falls apart once you check it out. If you're a Christian, why would you want to fry this dude?